DIFFERENT DATE AND LOCATION Note that OCLUG's September meeting is Tuesday and that the venue has changed. We're hoping that this will be stabilized before the October meeting. http://oclug.on.ca/ September Meeting: The R statistical language Date: September 7, 2010 at 7 p.m. Location: University of Ottawa, room DMS 7170, 55 Laurier East NOTE: TUESDAY SEPT 7. The R statistical language is one of the most successful open source projects. It runs on all major operating systems and supports nearly 2500 add-in packages that are actively tested and purged if not functioning. Great graphics, automated publication quality reports that are updateable with new data, and a huge array of strong mathematical tools built around a high-level object oriented programming language. See www.r-project.org. We are inviting the Ottawa Gatineau R User Group to share this meeting with us. An intro to R Speaker: John C. Nash Speaker: various Why should you be interested in R? Even if you are not doing statistics, R provides some useful tools for quick data management and manipulation. It has very nice graphics for quantitative material. And a nifty object oriented programming language that is extremely high level. The package management structure is perhaps the most advanced of any major software system in that the nearly 2500 packages undergo almost daily testing and failed packages are removed from the repository. Gnews & Tips Speaker: various Whats in the news about current issues concerning gnu/linux UseR! 2010 Speaker: Paul Gilbert Almost 500 workers attended the UseR! 2010 meeting in Washington in July. This overview will summarize some of the notable contributions.