We are pleased to announce that the R user conference useR! 2013
is scheduled for July 10-12, 2013, and will take place at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain. As for the predecessor conferences, the program will consist of two parts: invited lectures and user-contributed sessions (abstract submission will be available online later this year). Prior to the conference, there will be tutorials on R. CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS María Jesús Bayarri, José Manuel Benítez-Sánchez, Håvard Rue, Steve Scott and Hadley Wickham USER-CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS The conference will feature both talks and posters illustrating the use of R in practice. Contributions are welcome that introduce recent developments in the R Project (including CRAN packages), demonstrate applications of R in areas of current interest, or otherwise engage and inspire participants in their use of R. PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS Before the official program, half-day tutorials will be offered on Tuesday, July 9. We invite R users to submit proposals for three hour tutorials on special topics regarding R. The proposals should give a brief description of the tutorial, including goals, detailed outline, justification of why the tutorial is important, background knowledge required and potential attendees. A web page offering more information on the `useR!' conference is available at http://www.R-project.org/useR-2013 We hope to see you in Albacete! The organizing committee: Esteban Alfaro, José Luis Alfaro, M. Teresa Alonso, Emilio L. Cano, Gonzalo García-Donato, Matías Gámez, Noelia García, Virgilio Gómez-Rubio, María José Haro, Eva J. Moreno and Francisco Parreño. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.