The R User Conference 2010
July 20-23
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA

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Host:	National Institute of Standards and Technology
Sponsors:	R Foundation for Statistical Computing

About the Conference

useR! 2010, the R user conference, will take place at the Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) from 2010-07-21 to 2010-07-23. Pre-conference tutorials will take place on July 20.

The conference is organized by NIST and funded by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing.

Following the successful useR! 2004, useR! 2006, useR! 2007, user! 2008, and useR! 2009, conferences, the conference is focused on:

1. R as the `lingua franca' of data analysis and statistical computing,
2. providing a platform for R users to discuss and exchange ideas how R can be used to do statistical computations, data analysis, visualization and exciting applications in various fields,
3. giving an overview of the new features of the rapidly evolving R project.

As for the predecessor conferences, the program consists of two parts:

1. invited lectures discussing new R developments and exciting applications of R,
2. user-contributed presentations reflecting the wide range of fields in which R is used to analyze data.

A major goal of the useR! conference is to bring users from various fields together and provide a platform for discussion and exchange of ideas: both in the formal framework of presentations as well as in the informal part of the conference in Gaithersburg.

Prior to the conference, on 2010-07-20, there are tutorials offered at the conference site. Each tutorial has a length of 3 hours and takes place either in the morning or afternoon.

Invited speakers:

Mark Handcock, Frank Harrell Jr, Friedrich Leisch, Michael Meyer, Richard Stallman, Luke Tierney, Diethelm Würtz

Program committee: Louis Bajuk-Yorgan, Dirk Eddelbuettel, John Fox, Virgilio Gómez-Rubio, Richard Heiberger, Torsten Hothorn, Aaron King, Jan de Leeuw, Nicholas Lewin-Koh, Andy Liaw, Uwe Ligges, Martin Mächler, Katharine Mullen, Heather Turner, Ravi Varadhan, H. D. Vinod, John Verzani, Alan Zaslavsky, Achim Zeileis Organizing Committee: Kevin Coakley, Nathan Dodder, David Gil, William Guthrie, Olivia Lau, Walter Liggett, John Lu, Katharine Mullen, Jonathon Phillips, Antonio Possolo, Daniel Samarov, Ravi Varadhan Call for Papers: We invite all R users to submit abstracts presenting innovations or exciting applications of R on topics such as: Applied Statistics & Biostatistics Bayesian Statistics Bioinformatics Chemometrics and Computational Physics Data Mining Econometrics & Finance Environmetrics & Ecological Modeling High Performance Computing Machine Learning Marketing & Business Analytics Psychometrics Robust Statistics Social network analysis Spatial Statistics Statistics in the Social and Political Sciences Teaching Visualization & Graphics and many more. To submit an abstract, generate a pdf file using a template (preferred) for pdfTeX or for OpenOffice Writer and commercial friends, or generate a plain txt file. Submit the file via the abstract submission interface. Please keep abstracts to one page. The abstracts will be available in an online collection in a single pdf file. Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 1, 2010. Timeline of the Conference The scientific program of the conference will start the morning of Wednesday, July 21, and end in the afternoon on Friday, July 23. Prior to the conference, on Tuesday, July 20, several half-day tutorials will be held. Funding The Statistical Engineering Division of NIST has generously contributed funding to support those who otherwise would be unable to attend. As in years past, limited funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will also be available for graduate students and junior faculty at U.S. post-secondary institutions. Instructions regarding applying for support will be posted here on or about January 1, 2010. Sponsorship Potential sponsors of the conference can find more information here. Accommodation Information regarding accomodation near NIST is here. About NIST The NIST webpage links to information about the institute. Also note that there is a NIST YouTube channel. Travel Information regarding traveling to NIST is here. useR! 2010: Tutorials Before the official program, half-day tutorials will be offered on Tuesday, July 20th. Morning Douglas Bates: Fitting and evaluating mixed models using lme4 Peter Danenberg and Manuel Eugster: Literate programming with Roxygen Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn and Stef van Buuren: Handling missing data in R with MICE Frank Harrell Jr: Statistical presentation graphics François Husson and Julie Josse: Exploratory data analysis with a special focus on clustering and multiway methods Uwe Ligges: My first R package Daniel Samarov, Errol Strain and Elaine McVey: R for Eclipse Jing Hua Zhao: Genetic analysis of complex traits Alex Zolot: Work with R on Amazon's Cloud Afternoon Karim Chine: Elastic-R, a google docs-like portal for data analysis in the cloud Dirk Eddelbuettel: Introduction to high-performance computing with R Michael Fay: Interval censored data analysis Virgilio Gómez-Rubio: Applied spatial data analysis with R Frank Harrell Jr: Regression modeling strategies using the R package rms Olivia Lau: A crash course in R programming Friedrich Leisch: Sweave - Writing dynamic and reproducible documents John Nash: Optimization and related nonlinear modelling computations in R Brandon Whitcher, Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux, Bradley Buchsbaum and Jörg Polzehl: Medical image analysis for structural and functional MRI