R-related Conferences

The R project actively supports two conference series, organized regularly by members from the R community: useR! - providing a forum to the R user community - and DSC - a platform for developers of statistical software. A rough outline of the format for the respective conferences is given below; both conference formats were developed by the Austrian Association for Statistical Computing (AASC) in cooperation with the R Foundation for Statistical Computing.

useR! - International R User Conference

This is the main meeting of the R user and developer community, its program consisting of both invited and user-contributed presentations:

The invited keynote lectures cover a broad spectrum of topics ranging from technical and R-related computing issues to general statistical topics of current interest.
The user-contributed presentations are submitted as abstracts prior to the conference and may be related to (virtually) any R-related topic. The presentations are typically organized in sessions of either broad or special interest, which also comprise a "free" discussion format. Such a discussion format not only provides a forum for software demonstrations and detailed discussions but also supports the self-organization of the respective communities.

Usually, no proceedings are published for useR! conferences.

useR! 2004, Vienna, Austria: homepage, local copy

useR! 2006, Vienna, Austria: homepage, local copy

useR! 2007, Ames, USA: homepage, local copy

useR! 2008, Dortmund, Germany: homepage

DSC - Directions in Statistical Computing

DSC is a conference for the developers of statistical software and researchers in statistical computing which is somewhat focused on but not exclusively devoted to R. It aims at providing a platform for exchanging ideas about developments in statistical computing (rather than `only' the usage of statistical software for applications). As the associated papers are often technical and difficult to publish even in computational statistical journals, the DSC publishes post-conference proceedings of the papers that were accepted for publication.

DSC 1999, Vienna, Austria: homepage, local copy

DSC 2001, Vienna, Austria: homepage, local copy, proceedings

DSC 2003, Vienna, Austria: homepage, local copy, proceedings

DSC 2005, Seattle, USA: homepage, local copy

DSC 2007, Auckland, New Zealand: homepage, local copy

useR! 2004, Vienna, Austria:	homepage, local copy
useR! 2006, Vienna, Austria:	homepage, local copy
useR! 2007, Ames, USA:	homepage, local copy
useR! 2008, Dortmund, Germany:	homepage

DSC 1999, Vienna, Austria:	homepage, local copy
DSC 2001, Vienna, Austria:	homepage, local copy, proceedings
DSC 2003, Vienna, Austria:	homepage, local copy, proceedings
DSC 2005, Seattle, USA:	homepage, local copy
DSC 2007, Auckland, New Zealand:	homepage, local copy