Thanks for the useful comments. I'll try to make it to the interfaces session tomorrow.
John On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:16 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > -- 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
