R User Groups (RUGs)

A number of R user groups have been formed. This page is intended to assist interested R users to find groups or communicate their activities.

By country alphabetically, then alphabetic order of location please!

AUSTRALIA

Canberra R Users Group (CANRUG)

Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (ACT)

Organizers: Felix Andrews, Alec Zwart and John Maindonald

Website: http://canrug.togaware.com/

Activities: CANRUG currently meets at monthly intervals, to hear talks on R-related topics, and exchange ideas.

Melbourne Users of R Network (MelbURN)

Location: Melbourne, Victoria (VIC)

Organizers: Yuval Marom

Website: http://www.meetup.com/MelbURN-Melbourne-Users-of-R-Network/

Activities: MelbURNians meet monthly to share knowledge, expertise and experiences with R. We are a mixture of industry professionals, academics and researchers, from beginners to complete R experts.

Sydney Users of R Forum (suRf)

Location: Sydney, New South Wales (NSW)

Organizers: Eugene Dubossarsky and Louise Lor

Website: http://www.meetup.com/R-Users-Sydney/

Activities: suRf meets monthly to hear talks on R-related topics, share knowledge and provide R beginners with the opportunity to meet more experienced users.

CANADA

Ottawa-Gatineau R Users Group (OGRUG)

Location or subject: Capital region of Canada (Ottawa-Gatineau

Organizers: John Nash (University of Ottawa) and Paul Gilbert (Bank of Canada)

Mailing list: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-ug-ottawa

Activities: OGRUG meets about three times a year to discuss particular R-related topics, e.g., package building, and share information and news.

CHINA

FINLAND

Organizers: Finnish Society for Bioinformatics

IRC channel: #r-project @ IRCnet (online R-support and discussion forum, mainly targeted at Finnish community)

FRANCE

SEMIN-R

Location: Paris, Museum national d’Histoire naturelle

Organizers: Jerome Sueur and Michel Baylac

Web site/Mailing list: http://rug.mnhn.fr/semin-r

Activities: Meetings every month, mailing list, practicals

Groupe des utilisateurs du logiciel R

Location: Montpellier, CIRAD

Organizers: François Bonnot, Renaud Lancelot, Matthieu Lesnoff, and Samir Messad

Web site/Mailing list: http://forums.cirad.fr/logiciel-R/index.php

Activities: forum with announcements, documentation, links, packages, R scripts

Germany

Location: Dresden, Research Garden

Organizers: Robert Glaß, Torsten Hartmann and Sandy Lucka

Activities: Research Garden meets to discuss R-related topics and share information (short presentations).

Website: www.research-garden.de

Contact: slucka@research-garden.com

Kasseler useR Group

Location: Kassel

Organizers:Oliver Bracht

Website:http://www.meetup.com/Kassel-useR-Group/

Contact: oliver.bracht@eoda.de

SOUTH ASIA

Organizers: Saket Sarraf

Website: http://groups.google.co.in/group/r-sa

Message: I am interested in creating an active R-user community in South Asia. Would like interested people to join me to promote R in the subcontinent (including but not limited to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka)

ISRAEL

Organizers: Jonathan Rosenblatt and Tal Galili (University of Tel Aviv)

Website: http://groups.google.com/group/israel-r-user-group

ITALY

Location or subject: Padua, Italy

Organizers: associazione R.O.S.P.O.

Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/rante

JAPAN

Tsukuba: Tsukuba.R

Osaka: Osaka.R http://m884.jp/Osaka.R/

Nagoya: Nagoya.R http://corpus-study.info/nagoyar

Korea (South), Republic of

Location: Seoul

Organizers: Chel Hee Lee

Website:http://www.openstatistics.net

Contact: chl948@mail.usask.ca or gnustats@gmail.com

LEBANON

Coming Soon...

Location: Beirut, Lebanon

Organizers: Abbass Al Sharif

UK

London R Users Group (LRUG)

Location or subject: London, Southeast England, Southwest England

Organizers: Mango Solutions

Mailing list: http://www.londonR.org

Activities: Presentations (4-5) by R users in a casual environment with time for discussion afterwards

URUGUAY

Grupo de Usuarios de R en Uruguay (GURU)

Coming Soon.....

Organizers:

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/grupousuariosruruguay/

USA

Houston, TX: Coming Soon (sign up to the mailing list for announcements)

Atlanta R Users Group

Location: Atlanta, GA

Organizers: Derek Norton

Web site/Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/atlanta-r-users

Activities: sign up to the Google group for announcements

Dallas R Users Group

Location: Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX

Organizers: Larry D’Agostino

Web site/Mailing list: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Dallas_RUG/

Activities: Signup on the Yahoo Dallas_RUG mailing list

DC-Area R Users Group

Location: Washington, DC

Organizers: Marck Vaisman & Abhijit Dasgupta

Web site/Mailing list: http://www.meetup.com/R-users-DC/

Activities: Started Aug, 2009, Monthly Meetups, mostly in Rockville, MD.

Madison area R Users Group

Location: Madison, WI

Organizers: Yury Bukhman and Qiangwei Xia

Web site/Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/maduser

Activities: sign up to the Google group for announcements

New York, NY: UseR New York

Los Angeles area R Users Group

Location: Los Angeles

Organizers: Szilard Pafka and Jan de Leeuw

Web site/Mailing list: http://www.meetup.com/LAarea-R-usergroup/

Activities: Meetings every 1-2 months (see our previous meetings on the above site)

Portland R User Group

Location: Portland, OR

Organizers: Brian Diggs and Homer Strong

Web site/Mailing list: http://www.meetup.com/portland-r-user-group/

Activities: Monthly meetings announced through the Meetup group

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill R Users Group

Location: Chapel Hill, NC

Organizers: Ian Cook

Web site/Mailing list: http://www.meetup.com/Triangle-useR/

Activities: Monthly meetings slated to begin in Fall 2010

San Francisco Bay Area R Users Group

Location: San Francisco, CA

Organizers: Mike Driscoll and Jim Porzak

Web site/Mailing list: http://www.meetup.com/R-Users/

Activities: Meetings every month (see our previous meetings and archives on the above site)

Seattle R Users Group

Location: Seattle, WA

Organizers: Zach Stednick, Carolyn Johnston, Stephen Weller

Web site/Mailing list: http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-useR/

Activities: Monthly meetings and talks (see Meetup page for more info)

Poland

Location: Warsaw/Wroclaw

Web site/Mailing list: http://www.biecek.pl/WZUR

Activities: Every year meetings with tutorials, short presentations and barbecue.

Seeking to form a group?

Put requests and contact information here (alphabetic by country then location). Please date your entry and remember to clean up when the information is no longer relevant.

Ireland

Anyone interested? I’m in DCU, but would travel. You can get me at anthony.staines@dcu.ie Anthony Staines

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Anyone interested in setting up a group in Amsterdam? The city harbours two large research-oriented universities (and many more in nearby cities), numerous banks and other multi-national companies—there ought to be lots going on to build a R-community here. Feel free to reach me at “r DOT premraj AT gmail DOT com”.

Cheers. Rahul Premraj

Links

David Smith of REvolution Computing maintains a Local R User Group Directory

 
rugs/r_user_groups.txt · Last modified: 2010/08/27 by mjmessner
 
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