[R] 2 Courses Near You - (1) Introduction to R/S+ programming: Microarrays Analysis and Bioconductor, (2) R/Splus Fundamentals and Programming Techniques

[Jari Oksanen]

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 21:34 +0200, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> ... and again I wonder which courses are "near". This leads at once to 
> the question: "which metric is in use?". 
Possibly this:

### Great Circle distances
### Use different sign to N and S, and to E and W
### (does not matter which sign)
### Lat and long must be in degrees + decimals (sorry)
"globedis" <-
    function(lat0, lon0, lat1, lon1, km = TRUE)
{
    phi0 <- pi/180*lat0
    phi1 <- pi/180*lat1
    lambda <- pi/180*(lon0 - lon1)
    delta <- sin(phi0) * sin(phi1) + cos(phi0) * cos(phi1) * cos(lambda)
    delta <- acos(delta)
    dist <- 60*180/pi*delta
    dist <- dist %% 10800
    if (km)
        dist <- 1.852 * dist
    dist
}

Which says that Boston is nearest to my office (6100km). The other
alternatives are Baltimore 6720km, Chicago 6800km, Raleigh 7050km and
San Francisco 8240km.

In more practical metric of flight time, Baltimore is closest (OUL - BWI
12h55min), but Boston and Chicago are not much further away (OUL - BOS
14h00min, OUL-CHI 14h15min).

cheers, jari oksanen

> Probably some football related 
> metric: FIFA WM takes place in Dortmund and commercials say something 
> like "the world is our guest" ...
> Now, let's escape from football to Austria and Vienna's useR!2006 
> conference!
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> 
> elvis at xlsolutions-corp.com wrote:
> > XLSolutions Corporation (www.xlsolutions-corp.com) is proud to announce:
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> > (2) R/Splus Fundamentals and Programming Techniques
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> >  
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> > 
> > - R/S System: Overview; Installation and Demonstration 
> > - Data Manipulation and Management 
> > - Graphics; Enhancing Plots, Trellis 
> > - Writing Functions 
> > - Connecting to External Software 
> > - R/S Packages and Libraries (e.g. BioConductor) 
> > - BioConductor: Overview; Installation and Demonstration 
> > - Array Quality Inspection 
> > - Correction and Normalization; Affymetrix and cDNA arrays 
> > - Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes 
> > - Visualization of Genomic Information 
> > - Clustering Methods in R/Splus 
> > - Gene Ontology (GO) and Pathway Analysis 
> > - Inference, Strategies for Large Data 
> > 
> > 
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> > (2) R/Splus Fundamentals and Programming Techniques
> >                        
> > Course outline.
> > 
> > - An Overview of R and S
> > - Data Manipulation and Graphics
> > - Using Lattice Graphics
> > - A Comparison of R and S-Plus
> > - How can R Complement SAS?
> > - Writing Functions
> > - Avoiding Loops
> > - Vectorization
> > - Statistical Modeling
> > - Project Management
> > - Techniques for Effective use of R and S
> > - Enhancing Plots
> > - Using High-level Plotting Functions
> > - Building and Distributing Packages (libraries)
> > - Connecting; ODBC, Rweb, Orca via sockets and via Rjava
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