Let's get together to establish the group and sketch out ideas for future meet ups.
Things to think about:
- Locations for future meetings. Ideally some where with a screen and projector.
- When and how often we'd like to meet. Once a month? Every 3rd Thursday?
- Presentation ideas and themed meetings. We'll need volunteers to present (even just for a few minutes). Some other groups give their meetings a theme, so that presentations are on a similar topic.
June 3
Hey Chris, this is a great question. My answer is: it depends. For most people, I would say probably not – although it is possible to learn a lot about R in 30 days. I suppose if someone had a strong background in statistics and other programming languages (e.g. Python, C) and put in some time and effort, then he/she could become a strong R programmer quickly. I know we have a lot of newcomers to R, so am going to post a discussion page with resources for getting started.
June 3
I think having some programming background is very helpful for learning R (as opposed to SAS) - R control structures are pretty familiar - really C like.
June 27
Ellis, I'm under no illusions about R's steep learning curve. My first attempt to conquer its treacherous slopes was inconclusive, at best.
June 3
Came across this link to create your own R package, either for keeping your own functions together for easier reuse, or to share with others. Haven't tried to do this, but it looks very straightforward.
June 26
If anybody is looking to get oriented to R, I found this tutorial http://cran.r-project.org/doc/c... to be supremely helpful. Short and to the point. It's Windows-y when talking about installing, paths, etc., but that's a minor quibble.
1 · June 19
Great meeting tonight! I'm looking forward to the July gathering and hope that I can both learn from and contribute to the group.
By the way, since it came up tonight, here's some more info on Nerd Nite - http://annarbor.nerdnite.com/
June 19
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