[R] Interest in a Use R Group in San Francisco area?

[Marc Schwartz]

on 07/07/2008 01:42 PM Jim Porzak wrote:
> All,
> 
> Tuesday week (July 15th) Mike Driscoll & I will be presenting
> "A Gentle Introduction to R and its Applications in Business
> Intelligence" at the SDForum Business Intelligence SIG in Palo Alto,
> California.
> 
> One motivation is to judge interest in starting a Use R Group in the
> Bay Area. We will have an informal organizational meeting after the
> talk.
> 
> We hope all local R "groupies" can make it. If you can't and are
> interested in a user group dedicated to all aspects of R, please email
> Mike or me.
> 
> For details see link
> http://www.sdforum.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Calendar.eventDetail&eventID=13118
> 
> And, if you are doing some interesting business intelligence related
> work in R, we would love to mention it in the survey part of the talk.

R "groupies" in San Francisco?

I have this mental image of a bunch of geeks dressed in tie-dyed shirts, 
jeans and sandals, sitting on the corner of Haight-Ashbury listening to 
the Grateful Dead while coding on their laptops.

;-)

Good luck with the meeting Jim!  See you in Dortmund.

Regards,

Marc