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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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
WebSite: Looking for golden bugs
Organizers: Finnish Society for Bioinformatics
IRC channel: #r-project @ IRCnet (online R-support and discussion forum, mainly targeted at Finnish community)
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
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
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
Location: Kassel
Organizers:Oliver Bracht
Website:http://www.meetup.com/Kassel-useR-Group/
Contact: oliver.bracht@eoda.de
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)
Organizers: Jonathan Rosenblatt and Tal Galili (University of Tel Aviv)
Location or subject: Padua, Italy
Organizers: associazione R.O.S.P.O.
Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/rante
Tsukuba: Tsukuba.R
Osaka: Osaka.R http://m884.jp/Osaka.R/
Nagoya: Nagoya.R http://corpus-study.info/nagoyar
Location: Seoul
Organizers: Chel Hee Lee
Website:http://www.openstatistics.net
Contact: chl948@mail.usask.ca or gnustats@gmail.com
Coming Soon...
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Organizers: Abbass Al Sharif
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
Houston, TX: Coming Soon (sign up to the mailing list for announcements)
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
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
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.
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
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)
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
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
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)
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)
Location: Warsaw/Wroclaw
Web site/Mailing list: http://www.biecek.pl/WZUR
Activities: Every year meetings with tutorials, short presentations and barbecue.
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.
Anyone interested? I’m in DCU, but would travel. You can get me at anthony.staines@dcu.ie Anthony Staines
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
David Smith of REvolution Computing maintains a Local R User Group Directory