On Aug 16, 7:39 am, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have just noticed that there's an international R users conference, > with over 400 participants, taking place right now in my building > (which houses both Mathematics and Statistics departments). > Seehttp://www.warwick.ac.uk/statsdept/useR-2011/ > > Any suggestions? Any readers of this list at the meeting? I have > never user R and am not a statistician but I might have gone to this > morning's talk on "The R Development Process" if I had noticed it in > time. There's a session tomorrow on Interfaces. It looks as if the > talks are by people from companies which sell a fancy front-end to R. > I could not see any mention of Sage...
I went to this last summer (when it was near DC) and gave a talk about Sage, which was pretty well received. In fact, I think I gave a talk in the Interfaces session :) But at the same time, most R folks don't necessarily need the other things in Sage, any more than most (current) Sage users need R. There is a lot of room for more collaboration, and (I think) potential for and interest in this. However, there would probably need to be some specific event just for talking about this, similar to some Sage Days with Numpy or Singular or something. Otherwise, the communities are self-supporting enough (particularly the R one!) that it likely won't happen for quite some time, and then at a grassroots educational level. I think that if you were to show up at a couple of the smaller sessions and ask some questions. There are LOTS of places that are relevant. A very brief look at the schedule for today (well, too late for you, perhaps) are one about knot theory and R (?), a few talks about the community (R needing an ask.sagemath type site, etc.), dynamics graphics and R. Tomorrow there is a panel about building local R user groups, etc. The interfaces one tomorrow looks particularly relevant: Interfaces, MS.02, Chair: Matthew Shotwell Xavier de Pedro Puente Web 2.0 for R scripts and workflows: Tiki and PluginR David Nicolaides Browser Based Applications Supported by R in Pipeline Pilot Sheri Gilley A new task-based GUI for R Being there and asking some Sage-directed questions (a number of people should know about it) would be quite helpful. I also take this opportunity to plug RStudio. Eventually I will send a long email to sage-devel and sage-notebook about lessons we could learn from that product (and things they can learn from us, which I've already told them about!). - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
