[R] setting up a R working group

[Spencer Graves]

       1.  There is a CRAN mirror at Bristol (roughly 100km from 
Swansea?).  They must have (or have had) some very active R users there.


       2.  Sundar Dorai-Raj and I developed a local R Archive Network 
and subversion repository internal to a company where we used to work.  
I believe that made it easier for us to collaborate and to share our 
results with others.  (See "Creating R Packages, Using CRAN, R-Forge, 
And Local R Archive Networks And Subversion (SVN) Repositories", 
available from CRAN -> Documentation:  Contributed.)  This is not the 
first thing you should do, but I believe it can help build local 
collaboration and awareness of R.


       Hope this helps.
       Spencer


On 3/17/2011 6:42 AM, Joanne Demmler wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
> we are currently trying to set up a R working group at Swansea 
> University.
> I would be very grateful to get some information and feedback from R 
> users that have done something similar, in particular regarding:
>
> - help with giving a general overview of what R is capable of
> - help with what to present or teach (did you organise your own 
> training programme or did you get someone from outside?)
> - are there people out there who would like to present their work to us?
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated!
> Thanks Joanne
>