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This article is accompanied by nice pictures of Robert and Ross. Data Analysts Captivated by Power of R http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html January 7, 2009 Data Analysts Captivated by R?s Power By ASHLEE VANCE To some people R is just the 18th letter of the alphabet. To others, it?s the rating on racy movies, a measure of an attic?s insulation or

DSC 2001 International Workshop on Distributed Statistical Computing http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2001/ March 15--17, 2001 Vienna, Austria The second international workshop on `Distributed Statistical Computing' (DSC 2001) will take place at the Technische Universität Wien in Vienna, Austria from 2001-03-15 to 2001-03-17. This workshop will deal with future directions in

Associate Director, Statistics USA - MA - Cambridge Kendall Sq. 700 Main USA - CT - Groton Seeking a motivated and experienced statistician with a solid background in nonclinical statistics to provide support and leadership to Pfizer?s discovery sciences by influencing choice of targets, compounds, doses, and formulations at key decision points and meetings. ?The nonclinical statistician will

Members of R-devel may be interested in the special Sept. 2000 issue of J. of Comp. and Graph. Statist. http://www.amstat.org/publications/asajournals.html#jcgs on Systems and Languages. It features two articles by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka on "Java and Dylan" and "Lexical Scope and Statistical Computing", an article by Paul Murrell and Ross Ihaka on "An

In another thread on this list, various wild allegations have been made, relating to the New York Times article on R. I object both to the subject line and to the content of several of the messages, and will not repeat or quote any of that content. It smacks to me of mischief making. Discussion has centered around the following quote from the NY Times article: ?According to them, the

Pfizer is hiring a statistician supporting early drug discovery for Global Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics and Metabolism (PDM). If interested, go to http://pfizercareers.com/ and search for job ID 985944. The location is Groton, Connecticut. Responsibilities The statistician will have a consulting-type role supporting a large pool of scientists in two large platform line

> Toxicogenomics Statistician > > The successful candidate will provide statistical support to nonclinical > areas of R&D, especially in the areas of investigative toxicology, safety > biomarkers, and toxicogenomics. The candidate will collaborate with > scientists to plan meaningful experimental studies, statistically analyze > the results of those and other studies,

Position: Statistician in a systems biology team focused on metabolic disorders such as diabetes and obesity. The position is part of a statistics group supporting Pfizer global research and development. Role and Responsibilities: The statistician will be an integral member of a systems biology team which develops and/or uses computational and statistical approaches to manage and derive

An amusing afterthought : What is a rival software (ahem!) was planting this, hoping for a divide between S and R communities.or at the very minimum hoping for some amusement. an assumption or even a pretense of stealing credit is one of the easiest ways of sparking intellectual discord Most users of softwares don't really care about who gets credit ( Who wrote Windows Vista ,or Mac OS or

DSC 2001 International Workshop on Distributed Statistical Computing http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2001 March 15--17, 2001 Vienna, Austria The second international workshop on `Distributed Statistical Computing' (DSC 2001) will take place at the Technische Universität Wien in Vienna, Austria from 2001-03-15 to 2001-03-17. This workshop will deal with future directions in

I came across a quite interesting post from Ross Ihaka, thought would be good to share it and get the opinion of folks around here. I am not sure where to post this for the R community but since it has to do with development I thought or R-devel Ross Ihaka Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp From: Ross Ihaka <ih... at stat.auckland.ac.nz> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:35:26 +1300 Local: Tues, Jan 22

Nonclinical Biostatistics position at Genentech, South San Francisco September 3, 2009 Genentech has an opening for a full time position in its Nonclinical Biostatistics group, located in South San Francisco, CA. The nonclinical group currently consists of ten MS and PhD level statisticians and mathematicians, plus one programmer, who work with approximately 1,000 scientists, engineers, and

Attached is an updated version of the FAQ, to be released right after 0.50 is out. Please have a look, and let me know where improvements are needed. Thanks, -k ******************************************* R FAQ Kurt Hornik v0.1-0, 1997/04/16 This document contains answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about R. Feedback is welcome.

A much updated R FAQ is now available at the URL http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html The plain text version is appended below. -k ***************************************************************************** * Kurt Hornik * * * Dept of Statistics TU Wien * tel: +43 (1) 58801-4542 * * Wiedner Hauptstr

A much updated R FAQ is now available at the URL http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html The plain text version is appended below. -k ***************************************************************************** * Kurt Hornik * * * Dept of Statistics TU Wien * tel: +43 (1) 58801-4542 * * Wiedner Hauptstr

DSC 2003 International Workshop on Distributed Statistical Computing http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2003/ March 20--22, 2003 Vienna, Austria The third international workshop on 'Distributed Statistical Computing' (DSC 2003) will take place at the Technische Universit?t Wien in Vienna, Austria from 2003-03-20 to 2003-03-22. This workshop will deal with future directions in

DSC 2003 International Workshop on Distributed Statistical Computing http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2003/ March 20--22, 2003 Vienna, Austria The third international workshop on 'Distributed Statistical Computing' (DSC 2003) will take place at the Technische Universit?t Wien in Vienna, Austria from 2003-03-20 to 2003-03-22. This workshop will deal with future directions in

There are answers that could and should be applied in specific situations. At least in academia and in substantial research teams, statisticians ought to have a prominent part in many of the research teams. Senior statisticians should have a prominent role in deciding the teams to which this applies. why should it be ok to do combine high levels of chemical expertise with truly appalling

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Announce Special issue of the Journal of Statistical Software on Graphical User Interfaces for R Editors: Pedro Valero-Mora and Ruben Ledesma Since it original paper from Gentleman and Ihaka was published, R has managed to gain an ever-increasing percentage of academic and professional statisticians but the spread of its use among novice and occasional users of statistics have not