Adelaide R-users group

The aim of the Adelaide R-users group is to meet, discuss R, and share our experiences of R. It also hopes to be an opportunity for new users to get a helping hand up the first part of the steep learning curve or at least learn how to fit a line to the steep learning curve.

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Recent Meetups

May 22 at 5:30 PM, 24 R-users attended
Talk by Tyman Stanford
They rated it 4.006 (6 ratings)

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Was good. Learned or clarified a few things.

—John Feenstra

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As a newbie to R, I knew none of the tipes except reading the cran web site! ...

—Danièle Questiaux
April 24 at 5:30 PM, 20 R-users attended
Sweave: Combining R and Latex by Jessica Kasza
They rated it 4.504 (4 ratings)

Often, when creating presentations or reports, the inclusion of R code and output into LaTex documents is desirable and useful. Sweave is a convenient package that... Learn more
February 28 at 5:30 PM, 20 R-users attended
The Class System in R by Paul Burch
They rated it 4.503 (3 ratings)

In this talk I will discuss how objects are represented and manipulated in R. R has two class systems for object oriented programming, S3 and S4. The generic functions... Learn more
January 31 at 5:30 PM, 22 R-users attended
Talk by Gary Glonek: Model Syntax in R
They rated it 4.002 (2 ratings)

A useful feature of R is the implementation of constructs such as "y~x", "y~A*B+x" for the specification of linear models and their generalisations. This talk will be... Learn more
December 20, 2011 at 5:30 PM, 15 R-users attended
Talk and Christmas drinks
They rated it 5.005 (5 ratings)

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Great session and really interesting to hear about ggplot2. And a nice little trick from Ahmed. I think that format worked quite well.

—Andreas Kiermeier

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The talk on ggplot inspired me to have a longer look at it. ...

—Chris Brien

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What's new

New Member

Patty Solomon joined
May 27 at 1:06 PM

"I am Professor of Statistics at the University of Adelaide, and a long-time user and teacher of R."
New Member

Des Wagner joined
May 24 at 10:16 PM

"Hi I'm a computer science student at Uni of Adelaide looking to get to grips with data through some statistical analysis. I have a lot to learn. I hope I've come to the right place :)"
New comment

Ty commented on Talk by Tyman Stanford
May 23 at 6:25 PM

"Hi all, Jono has put up the slides from last night at: http://files.meetup.com/2572572/ARUG_TyStanford.pdf if you want any of the code. Ty"

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Group Review

Leo Lannigan wrote a group review
May 23 at 12:23 PM

"I would still like to get to know the group. I don't really talk to people. I'm hoping the rest of the group are non-people like me so that I might be able to have a real conversation."
New Rating

Leo Lannigan attended Talk by Tyman Stanford
May 23 at 12:23 PM

"I loved the talk, especially the c-code for colouring script. Playing with these will entertain me to no end while I figure out what I've stuffed up this time (last time is was forgetting to convert from radians to kilometres)...."

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Group Review

Danièle Questiaux wrote a group review
May 23 at 10:42 AM

"I did not meet up with anyone but it is more through feeling the black sheep, not being a statistician and being new at R, very very new! the group seems to be quite large!"
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Danièle Questiaux attended Talk by Tyman Stanford
May 23 at 10:42 AM

"As a newbie to R, I knew none of the tipes except reading the cran web site! It would be helpful to have a copy of the talk as the examples are a necessity to grasp the tips (in my case at least!)...."

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John Feenstra attended Talk by Tyman Stanford
May 23 at 10:23 AM

"Was good. Learned or clarified a few things."

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New File

Jonathan Tuke uploaded ARUG_TyStanford.pdf
May 22 at 7:34 PM

ARUG_TyStanford.pdf
"Ty's slides"
New RSVP

Gary Glonek RSVPed Yes for Talk by Tyman Stanford
May 22 at 3:21 PM

May 22

Talk by Tyman Stanford
Tuesday 5:30 PM at Benham lecture theatre