R Learning sessions part 2: R & data.table, R & script deployments

• R is about speedy analysis

• R is about putting your analysis in production

• R is about going beyond basic data analysis

That's why the next R Belgium meeting will show off 2 important R features for your day-to-day R operations: Using data.table for speedy data analysis and how to deploy your R scripts and programs.

Our speakers of the evening will be:

• Arunkumar Srinivasan (github (https://github.com/arunsrinivasan), stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/users/559784/arun), linkedin (https://be.linkedin.com/pub/arunkumar-srinivasan/85/b0/34a)). The author (together with Matt Dowle) of the awesome data.table (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/data.table/index.html) package.

• Bart Smeets (github (https://github.com/Bart6114), linkedin (https://be.linkedin.com/pub/bart-smeets/25/148/83b)) known from his extremely useful scheduleR (https://github.com/Bart6114/scheduleR) application.

Next meeting: Tuesday May 26 2015.

Location: BNOSAC (www.bnosac.be) offices - Paleizenstraat 153, 1030 Brussels - Lustrerie Business Center (http://www.lalustrerie.be (http://www.lalustrerie.be/)), close to Gare du Nord in Brussels.

Schedule:

18:00 to 18:30 Arriving

18:30 to 19:00 On the data.table grammar for fast, flexible and memory efficient data analysis (Arunkumar Srinivasan)

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19:15 to 19:45 Deploying R-based solutions: what when you've developed your script/application? (Bart Smeets)

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20:00 Drinks at Bar du Gaspi - http://www.bardugaspi.com