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The 8 th International R Users Conference 12 th – 15 th June, 2012 General Information & Program Schedule
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The 8th International R Users Conference
12th – 15th June, 2012
General Information & Program Schedule
Welcome!
Dear useRs,
Welcome to the R user conference, useR! 2012, hosted by the Department of Biostatistics, Van-derbilt University School of Medicine. Following seven successful meetings, the useR! conference isfocused on: R as the ‘lingua franca’ of data analysis and statistical computing; providing a platformfor R users to discuss and exchange ideas on how R can be used for statistical computations, dataanalysis, visualization and exciting applications in various fields; and giving an overview of the newfeatures of the rapidly evolving R project. The program consists of invited talks discussing new Rdevelopments and interesting applications of R, and user-contributed presentations reflecting thewide range of fields in which R is used to analyze data.
The following pages provide you with information regarding the R User Conference, useR! 2012.We hope that you find the conference enjoyable and stimulating, and also hope that you enjoy yourtime here at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
With kind regards from the useR! 2012 Organizing Committee.
JoAnn Alvarez Audrey CarvajalWilliam Cunningham Chris FonnesbeckFrank Harrell Tatsuki KoyamStephania McNeal-Goddard Matt ShotwellYanna Song Sherry StokesYuwei Zhu
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Program Overview
Monday, June 1107:30 – 09:00 Continental Breakfast (for short-course attendees)09:00 – 17:30 Pre-conference short course, Bill VenablesTuesday, June 1207:00 – 08:30 Tutorial Registration08:30 – 12:00 Morning tutorial sessions13:30 – 17:00 Afternoon tutorial sessions14:00 – 17:00 Registration16:30 – 18:30 Opening MixerWednesday, June 1307:45 – 08:45 Registration & Breakfast08:45 – 09:00 Introductory Remarks09:00 – 09:45 Opening Keynote - Di Cook09:50 – 10:50 Kaleidoscope I10:50 – 11:15 Break11:15 – 12:35 Focus I12:35 – 14:00 Lunch14:00 – 14:45 Invited Talk - Bryan Hanson14:45 – 15:30 Invited Talk - Simon Urbanek15:30 – 16:00 Break16:00 – 17:00 Focus II17:05 – 18:05 Lightning Talks18:15 – 21:00 Poster Session with Drinks and BBQ buffetThursday, June 1408:00 – 09:00 Breakfast09:00 – 09:45 Thursday Keynote - Kevin Coombes09:50 – 10:50 Kaleidoscope II10:50 – 11:15 Break11:15 – 12:35 Focus III12:35 – 14:00 Lunch14:00 – 14:45 Invited Talk - Norm Matloff14:45 – 15:30 Invited Talk - Yihui Xie & JJ Allaire15:30 – 16:00 Break16:00 – 17:00 Focus IV17:05 – 18:05 Special Invited Discussion18:05 – 19:15 Shuttle to Country Music Hall of Fame & Cocktail Hour19:15 – 23:00 Conference Dinner1
Friday, June 1508:00 – 09:00 Breakfast09:00 – 09:45 Invited Talk - Tim Hesterberg09:50 – 10:50 Focus V10:50 – 11:15 Break11:15 – 12:15 Closing Keynote - Bill Venables12:15 – 12:35 Closing Remarks
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Travel and accomodation
Time zone
Nashville is in the central time zone (CST).
Venue
The main conference takes place at
Langford Auditorium & Light HallVanderbilt University School of MedicineNashville, TN 37232-2158USA
Bill Venables’ pre-conference short course will take place in the Vanderbilt Student Life Center(SLC). Tutorials will be held in one of three buildings: the Student Life Center, Light Hall (RLH), orMedical Center North (MCN). Two campus maps are provided below. Interactive maps, includingthe locations of conference hotels, on-campus housing, parking garage (for those not staying oncampus), and conference venues are availabe at the conference website.
Traveling to Nashville and Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is located in Nashville, Tennesse, USA. The nearest major airport is NashvilleInternational Airport (BNA), located about ten miles east of campus. The BNA website maintainsa list of ground transportation options for air travelers. Taxi fare from the airport to VanderbiltUniversity is about $27, and shuttles and buses are more economical options but have longer traveltimes.
Accommodations
The hotels listed below are officially designated for the 2012 R User Conference. They offer con-ference rates and will have shuttle transportation to conference venues.
B Marriott Nashville at Vanderbilt University2555 West End AvenueNashville, TN 37203Phone: 001 615 321 1300Fax: 001 615 340 5142Room rate/range: $156 (plus tax)Block available dates: Sunday, June 10 - Friday, June 15, 2012Block open until: Friday, May 11, 2012Block code: USEUSEAGuests must identify themselves as members of the group “useR! Conference 2012” if bookingby phone.
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B Holiday Inn Nashville Vanderbilt2613 West End AvenueNashville, TN 37203Phone: 001 615 327 4707Fax: 001 615 327 8034Room rate/range: $119 - $159 depending on room type (plus tax)Block available dates: Monday, June 11 - Friday, June 15, 2012Block open until: Saturday, May 12, 2012Block code: USE
B Lowes Vanderbilt Hotel Nashville2100 West End AvenueNashville, TN 37203Phone: 001 615 320 1700Fax: 001 615 320 0576Room rate/range: $169 - $209 depending on room type (plus tax)Block available dates: Monday, June 11, 2012 - Friday, June 15, 2012Block open until: Saturday, May 12, 2012Block code: VAN612
B Hilton Garden Inn Nashville/Vanderbilt1715 Broadway AvenueNashville, TN 37203Phone: 001 615 369 5900Fax: 001 615 369-5901Room rate/range: $129 (plus tax)Block available dates: Sunday, June 10, 2012 - Friday, June 15, 2012Block open until: Friday, May 11, 2012Block code: VUSOM
B Embassy Suites Hotel Nashville at Vanderbilt1811 Broadway AvenueNashville, TN 37203Phone: 001 615 320 8899Fax: 001 615 320 8881Room rate/range: $139 - $159 depending on room type (plus tax)Block available dates: Monday, June 11, 2012 - Friday, June 15, 2012Block open until: Friday, May 11, 2012Block code: VBO
On campus housing is at the Gillette House, located on the Commons. Gillette house is about500 feet east of the intersection of Dixie Place and 21st Avenue South, or 500 yards west of theintersection of Horton Avenue and 18th Avenue South. Linen service will be provided, whichincludes fitted and flat sheets, pillow, pillow case, towel, washcloth and a knit blanket. The facilityhas community baths in a traditional residence hall building. Parking is $10 per car, per day forovernight guests. Please direct any questions about on-campus accommodations to Elizabeth Stoutat 001 615 343 1402 or via email at [email protected].
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Parking
Conference parking (during the day) will be available at the 25th Avenue Garage on Vanderbiltscampus. The cost for each day is $7.75 per vehicle, and each car will be provided with parkinghangtag. Shuttles will run regularly between all the host hotels and the conference venues whilethe conference is in session. If you need to arrange handicapped parking, please contact NatalieRaines at 001 615 343 3320, or by e-mail at [email protected].
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General information
Conference registration
On-site egistration for the conference will take place Tuesday through Thursday at the followingtimes:
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 15:00 – 18:00 Light Hall north lobbyWednesday, June 13, 2012 08:00 – 08:40 Langford Auditorium lobbyThursday, June 14, 2012 09:00 – 09:40 Langford Auditorium lobby
Internet access
Wireless internet access is available throughout Light Hall and Langford Auditorium. The SSIDfor wireless internet access is “vummiv”. This SSID may not be “broadcasted”. Hence, it maybe necessary to manually connect. Additional instructions are available at the VUMC Help Deskwebsite, or by calling 615 343 4357 (34357 if on campus).
Meals
A continental breakfast and boxed lunch will be provided for those attending Bill Venables’ shortcourse Monday June 11th. No meals will be provided for tutorial participants on Tuesday June12th. However, beer, wine, non-alcoholic drinks, and light hors d’oeuvres will be served duringthe opening mixer Tuesday evening (16:30–18:30). Breakfast will be provided for all participantsthe mornings of June 13, 14, and 15 (Wednesday, 07:45–08:45; Thursday and Friday, 08:00–09:00).Lunch will be served for all registrants the days of June 13 and 14. All participants are invitedto enjoy a BBQ buffet with sides, including beer, and non-alcoholic drinks during the Wednesdayevening poster session. Each of the conference breaks will offer a selection of drinks and snacks.
The conference banquet will be held Thursday evening at the Country Music Hall of Fame indowntown Nashville. Admission is by ticket only.
Smoking Policy
The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine campus is a smoke-free facility.
Emergency information
The phone number for fire, police, and medical emergencies in the United States is 911. Whenusing Vanderbilt phones, you must dial 9 first to get off-campus lines. To contact VanderbiltUniversity Police for non-emergency matters, call 615 322 2745 (22745 from campus lines). Forurgent conference matters, call Stephania McNeal-Goddard at 615 322 4924.
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Program Committee and Conference Sponsors
Program Committee
Claudia Beleites Dirk EddelbuettelJohn Fox Benjamin FrenchTal Galili Jeffrey HornerAndy Liaw Uwe LiggesSteve Miller Kate MullenBill Pikounis Matt ShotwellHeather Turner Ravi VaradhanAchim Zeileis
Conference Sponsors
Support from our sponsors is gratefully acknowledged.
Conference sponsors
RstudioRevolution AnalyticsGoogleTIBCOAmerican Credit AcceptanceOpen Analytics
Sponsors of the student scholarship program
RStudioRevolution AnalyticsTIBCOAmerican Statistical Association, Middle Tennessee Chapter
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useR! 2012 Draft Program
Monday 11th June: Short Course
Registration for Bill Venables’ short course begins at 07 : 30 in the Student Life Center (SLC) lobby.
A continental breakfast will be served from 07:30 until 09:00. The morning session begins in the SLC
Commodore Ballroom at 09:00 and ends at 12:30, with a coffee break at 10:15. Lunch will be served from
12:30 until 13:45. The course resumes for the afternoon at 14:00 and ends at 17:30, with a break at 15:45.
Tuesday 12th June: Tutorials
Tutorial registration begins at 07 : 00 in the north lobby of Light Hall. Morning tutorials will be heldfrom 08:30 until 12:00, with a break for coffee at 10:00. Lunch will not be catered for tutorial participants.Afternoon tutorials will be held from 13:30 until 17:00, with a break at 15:00.
Tutorials are located in three separate buildings: The Student Life Center (SLC), Light Hall (RLH), andMedical Center North (MCN). These buildings are highlighted on the smaller campus map. Tutorial roomassignments are listed in parentheses, e.g., (SLC A) indicates Student Life Center, Commodore Ballroom A.
Morning Tutorials
B Terri Scott & Frank Harrell: (SLC A) Reproducible research with R, LaTeX, Sweave, & knitr
B Uwe Ligges: (RLH 214) Writing efficient and parallel code in R
B Dirk Eddelbuettel & Romain Francois: (RLH 411) Introduction to Rcpp
B Douglas Bates: (RLH 202) Fitting and evaluating mixed models using lme4
B Jeremiah Rounds: (MCN C2209) RHIPE: R and Hadoop Integrated Programming Environment
B Jeffrey Horner: (SLC B) Building R web applications with Rook
B Brandon Whitcher, Jorg Polzehl, Karsten Tabelow: (RLH 415) Medical image analysis in R
B Richard Heiberger & Martin Maechler: (RLH 419) Emacs speaks statistics
B Olivia Lau: (SLC C) A crash course in R programming
Afternoon Tutorials
B Hadley Wickham: (RLH 202) Creating effective visualisations
B Josh Paulson, JJ Allaire, & Joe Cheng: (SLC A) Getting the most out of RStudio
B Romain Francois & Dirk Eddelbuettel: (RLH 411) Advanced Rcpp usage
B Terry Therneau: (RLH 415) Design of the survival packages
B Martin Morgan: (MCN C2209) Bioconductor for high-throughput sequence analysis
B Max Kuhn: (RLH 214) Predictive modeling with R and the caret package
B Robert Muenchen: (SLC B) Managing data with R
B Barry Rowlingson: (SLC C) Geospatial data in R and beyond
B Karim Chine: (RLH 419) Cloud computing for the R environment
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Early Registration & Opening Mixer
Early conference registration will be held from 16:30 until 18 : 30 in the Langford lobby. All conference
attendees are welcome to join us for drinks in the north lobby of Light Hall from 16:30 to 18:30. Beer, wine,
non-alcoholic drinks and light snacks will be available for all attendees.
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Wednesday, June 13th
07:45 Registration and Breakfast, Langford Lobby
08:45 Introductory Remarks, Langford Auditorium
09:00 Introductory Keynote, Langford Auditorium, Chair: Matt Shotwell
Di Cook Every Plot Must Tell a Story - even in R
09:50 Kaleidoscope Ia, Location: TBA, Chair: Benjamin French
Benjamin Nutter Simplified Reproducible Research using lazyWeave
Michael Rutter Predicting Dangerous E. coli Levels at Erie, Pennsylvania Beaches Using R
Hadley Wickham Package development: the easy way.
Kaleidoscope Ib, Location: TBA, Chair: TBA
David Smith Applications of R in Business
Eric Stone Give Your Data a Listen
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Heather Turner Modelling the Effect of Social Mobility on Limiting Long-term Illness
10:50 Break, Langford Lobby
11:15 Bioinformatics, Location: TBA, Chair: Brandon Whitcher
Daniel Connolly Integrating R efficiently to allow secure, interactive analysis within a clinical data warehouse
Kyle Covington Gene Expression Analysis In Red-R
Jean-Eudes Dazard R package ROCS for Inferring Specific Protein-Protein Interactions in AP-MS Data
Paul Kowalczyk Knowledge Discovery in Neglected Disease Databases: Using R for Data Visualization, Anal-ysis and Mining
Visualization, Location: TBA, Chair: Hadley Wickham
Jean-Christophe Aude SVGMapping: an R package to map ’omic’ data sets onto pathways templates
David Kahle ggmap : Interfacing ggplot2 and RgoogleMaps
Marie Vendettuoli Interactive Hammock Plots for Visualizing Categorical Data
Yihui Xie cranvas: Interactive statistical graphics in R based on Qt
Teaching, Location: TBA, Chair: Leena Choi
Brooke Anderson bespoke: A package to custom-make online web applications of statistics homework andpractice problems
Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel Integrating R into introductory statistics
Colin Gillespie Teaching R to large first year classes
Edith Seier Randomization methods in introductory statistics courses
Survival Analysis, Location: TBA, Chair: Terry Therneau
Nicole Ferguson msSurv, an R Package for Nonparametric Estimation of Multistate Models
Kathleen Jablonski A Pipeline for Analysis of SNP Arrays for Longitudinal Studies (PASALS)
Stephanie Kovalchik Absolute risk Models and calculators for clinical use in R
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Jim Porzak Subscription Survival Analysis in R
12:35 Lunch, Langford Lobby and Tent
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14:00 Invited Talk, Langford Auditorium, Chair: TBA
Bryan Hanson HiveR: 2 and 3D Hive Plots of Networks
14:45 Invited Talk, Langford Auditorium, Chair: TBA
Simon Urbanek Web-based Interactive Graphics and R in the Cloud
15:30 Break, Langford Lobby
16:00 Commercial Database Applications I, Location: TBA, Chair: Przemyslaw Biecek
Seonghak Hong RHive in a data scientists tool box
Mark Hornick Providing scalable, transparent access to database-resident data for efficient enterprise ad-vanced Analytics
Patrick McCann Parallel Apply Functions for In-Database Distributed Scoring
Data Mining, Location: TBA, Chair: Tal Galili
Joseph Rickert Introduction to R for Data Mining
Taylor Arnold hdlm: User Oriented, High-Dimensional Linear Model Estimation
Max Kuhn Rules, Rules, Rules! Regression Modeling Using the Cubist Package
Statistical Methods, Location: TBA, Chair: Jonathan Schildcrout
Malika Charrad Finding the relevant number of clusters in a data set : Nb.clusters package
Paul Schuette Power and Sample Size for Safety Registries: new methods using confidence intervals andsaw-tooth power curves
Shubing Wang autoLDA, an R-package for Automated Longitudinal Data Analysis
GUI Extensions, Location: TBA, Chair: Sharon Phillips
Sandra Griffith Developing a context-specific plug-in for R Commander: Lessons learned from a longitudinaldata Analysis training in a resource-limited setting
Jyotsna Kasturi EZ-R4Excel: unleashing the statistical power of R in Excel
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Jocelyn Sendecki A Simple RExcel Interface for Bayesian Adaptive Clinical Trial Enrollment
17:05 Lightning Talks
18:15 Poster Session, Langford Lobby
Drinks and BBQ buffet will be served during the poster session.
21:00 Adjourn for Day
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Lightning Talks
Coming Soon!
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Posters
18:15 Poster, Langford Lobby
Patrick Breheny Visualization of Regression Models Using visreg
Jae Brodsky Some Challenges of Using R in a Regulatory Environment
TszKin Julian Chan Econometrics of Network
Karim Chine Towards an R-based data operating system for the the science clouds
Leena Choi Profile likelihoods and the likelihood paradigm: The R Package ProfileLikelihood
Anthony Damico The SAScii Function
Bryan Hanson Implementation of ANOVA-PCA in R for Multivariate Data Exploration
Bryan Hanson HiveR: 2 and 3D Hive Plots of Networks
Sebastian Hoffmeister The most general GUI-solution for R
Heewon Jeon SNA with R Text Mining
Keehoon Kim Modeling of Volcanic Sound Radiation Using Finite-difference Time-domain Method in R
Helena Kotthaus A JVM-based Compiler Strategy for the R Language
Emilio L. Cano Open Platform for Quality Methodologies: a Six Sigma Framework for Competitiveness
Spencer Maynes Fitting Sinusoidal Hysteresis in R: The R package fitellipse
Rodger Oren Project Managment Factor Text Analysis with R
Nicole Radziwill Exploratory Analysis of 2010 Starr Hill Brewing Company Production Data
James Robison-Cox Discussion of R Programming Topics
Andrew Timm The MDS-GUI: A Graphical User Interface for comprehensive Multidimensional Scaling ap-plications.
Kevin Wright The agridat package
Dean Yergens RMail: Automated Emailing of Sweave Reports
Dean Yergens Web-Based Epidemiology Analytic System utilizing R
Edwin de Jonge Interactive inspection of large data
Brandon Whitcher RSimpleITK: An R Interface to the Insight Toolkit with SimpleITK
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Daniel Kaplan Teaching Calculus with R
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Thursday, June 14th
08:00 Breakfast, Langford Lobby
09:00 Thursday Keynote, Langford Auditorium, Chair: Yu Shyr
Kevin Coombes Cell Lines, Chemotherapy Response, and the Need for Reproducible Research
09:50 Kaleidoscope IIa, Location: TBA, Chair: Qingxia (Cindy) Chen
Vijay Barve FlickR
Karim Chine R, The Cloud and the Data Deluge
Jeroen Ooms Scalable Embedded Scientific Computing with OpenCPU
Kaleidoscope IIb, Location: TBA, Chair: TBA
Winston Chang Tracking down bugs with bisect tools
Garrett Grolemund Dates and times made easy with lubridate
Leo Osvald TraceR: A framework for understanding R performance
Kaleidoscope IIc, Location: TBA, Chair: TBA
Robert Muenchen Helping Your Organization Migrate to R
Drew Levy Graphical tool for disambiguation of bias in health research
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Emilio L. Cano Decision Making under Uncertainty: R implementation for Energy Efficient Buildings
10:50 Break, Langford Lobby
11:15 Business Applications, Location: TBA, Chair: David Smith
Emmanuel Senyo Fianu Risk Management: An Econometric Analysis of Risk in Energy Market.
Jackie McCush Social Network Analysis for Online Group Games
Ruan Rossouw General Process Data Management Framework
Samuel Thomas Using R to Evaluate Quality Auditor Consistency for a Call Center
Environmental/Spatial Statistics, Location: TBA, Chair: Lily Wang
Narayani Barve Spatio-temporal Analysis of climatic data in understanding species distributions
Nicholas Crookston Modeling North American vegetation: solving a 46-level classification problem
Jonathan Lees Rquake: Earthquake Hypocenter Analysis
Colin Rundel rgeos: spatial geometry predicates and topology operations in R
Official Statistics, Location: TBA, Chair: Heather Turner
Jan-Philipp Kolb Generation of synthetic universes for micro-simulations in survey statistics
Jerzy Wieczorek Interactively Mapping Significant Differences Between Areas
Mark van der Loo New data correction features of editrules and deducorrect
Web Applications, Location: TBA, Chair: Jeff Horner
Joe Olson Using R with node.js as a web service
Thomas Roth Web Applications for Statistics in Quality Management
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John Verzani Creating interactive web pages within R: The gWidgetsWWW2 package
12:35 Lunch, Langford Lobby and Tent
14:00 Invited Talk, Langford Auditorium, Chair: Ben Saville
Norm Matloff Parallel R, Revisited
14:45 Invited Talk, Langford Auditorium Chair: Ben Saville
Yihui Xie & JJ Allaire New Tools for Reproducible Research with R
15:30 Break, Langford Lobby
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16:00 Commercial Database Applications II, Location: TBA, Chair: Mark Hornick
Przemyslaw Biecek Parallel data processing with R on combined IBM Netezza 1000 and HPC cluster
Antonio Piccolboni Slicing and dicing big data with RHadoop/rmr
Jung Woo High Scale In-Database Modeling in Greenplum with R
Dimension Reduction, Location: TBA, Chair: Uwe Ligges
Natalia Becker penalizedSVM: feature selection for SVM classification in high dimensions
Jim Harner rknn: an R Package for Random KNN Classification and Regression with Variable Selection
Martin Sill Sparse Principal Component Analysis using Stability Selection
Reproducible Research, Location: TBA, Chair: Xi (Steven) Chen
Jason Bryer Using the makeR Package for Managing Document Building and Versioning
Søren Højsgaard Rmarkup - a very simple tool for literate programming
Andrew Redd harvestr: A Simple Reproducible Parallel Simulation Framework
High-performance Computing I, Location: TBA, Chair: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Sai Kumar Popuri Implementation of the Binomial Method of Option Pricing using Parallel Computing in R
Justin Talbot Efficiently Executing R Code on Modern Hardware
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Zubin Dowlaty Building Distributed Intelligent Systems for the Enterprise with R
17:05 Special Invited Discussion, Langford Auditorium, Chair: Douglas Bates
Douglas Bates“What other languages should R users know about?”Chris Fonnesbeck
Dirk Eddelbuettel
18:05 Shuttle to Conference Dinner, Outside Langford
19:15 Conference Dinner (ticket required)
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Friday June 15th
08:00 Breakfast, Langford Lobby
09:00 Invited Talk, Langford Auditorium, Chair: Bill Pikounis
Tim Hesterberg A Tale of Two Packages
09:50 Engineering/Physics Applications, Location: TBA, Chair: TBA
James Foadi cRy: a specialised software for statistical applications in x-ray crystallography
Keith Halbert crackR: Probabilistic Prediction of Airframe Fatigue Damage
Alastair Sanderson Measuring excess energy from galaxy feedback with mathematical Modelling in R
High-performance Computing II, Location: TBA, Chair: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Giuseppe Bruno Metropolis-Hastings goes parallel on a GPU: first experiences and results
Michel Lang BatchJobs and BatchExperiments: Abstraction mechanisms for using R in batch environ-ments
Karl Millar Scaling R to Internet Scale Data
Programming, Location: TBA, Chair: Chris Fonnesbeck
Andrej Blejec angleR: calculate with angles given in degrees, minutes and seconds
Joseph Conway PL/R: The Fusion of PostgreSQL and R
Alexander Matrunich R as sms-proccessing and report-generating tool in exit-poll
Regression Analysis, Location: TBA, Chair: Max Kuhn
Andreas Alfons A toolkit for cross-validation: The R package cvTools
Tatjana Kecojevic Smooth Bootstrap Inference for Parametric Quantile Regression
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Giovanni Petris Outliers and structural breaks in structural time series
10:50 Break, Langford Lobby
11:15 Closing Keynote, Langford Auditorium, Chair: Frank Harrell Jr.
Bill Venables R, Quo Vadis?
12:15 Concluding Remarks, Langford Auditorium
12:35 Adjourn
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Notes
Printed abstracts will not be provided at the conference. The abstract booklet will be available for downloadat http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/UseR-2012.
Please note that there are three different formats for contributed talks:
useR! Kaleidoscope: These sessions will give a broad overview of the many different applications of Rand should appeal to a wide audience.
useR! Focus Sessions: These sessions will focus on topics of special interest and may be more technical.
useR! Lightning Talks: Following success last year, these sessions, with oral presentations of 5 minutes,provide a platform for participants to speak on any R-related topic and should particularly appeal toR newbies.
Information for Speakers, Session Chairs, and Poster Presenters
B Presenters of Kaleidoscope and Focus contributed talks, please note that your talk is scheduled for 17minutes, followed by 3 minutes discussion.
B Presenters of Lightning talks, please note that your talk is scheduled for 5 minutes, with 1 minutequestion/transition time. A variation of the pecha kucha and ignite formats will be used, in whichyou must provide 15 slides to accompany your talk and each slide will be shown for 20 seconds. Slidesmust be provided in PDF format and sent by email to your Session Chair by 17:00, Monday, June 11,2012.
B Each useR! Invited Lecture will last 40 minutes, with 5 minutes at the end of the lecture reserved forquestions.
B Technical details: All lecture rooms are equipped with an LCD projector and a computer or laptopthat is connected to the internet. Unless speakers require their own laptop for software demonstrations,speakers are expected to ensure that a PDF of their presentation slides is on the computer provided,before the start of their session. For presenters of Lightning Talks, this is achieved by sending theslides in advance as described above; for presenters of other talks, please see a conference organizer toarrange transfer of your slides. Conference organizers will be available in the lecture rooms at least 10minutes before the program starts each day and at least 10 minutes before the program recommencesafter each coffee or lunch break. Please arrive well before the start of your session and introduceyourself to the Session Chair. During your talk, please look out for the countdown cards that theChair will use to signal that your time is coming to a close.
B Session Chairs: Please arrive well before the start of your session to meet the speakers and ensurethat they have a PDF of their slides on the room computer. Countdown cards will be provided tohelp you keep the speakers to time. If we are aware that a speaker is missing up to 2 hours prior tothe relevant session, then other talks will be brought forward and a notice placed on the conferencewebsite, otherwise we request that Chairs keep to the timetable, and in the event of a missing speaker,advise the audience to go to an alternative talk.
B For those preparing posters, the poster boards can accommodate posters of dimension smaller than 4feet tall and 6 feet wide. Poster presenters should arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the start of theposter session to put up their poster. Regular posters will have allocated boards as numbered in theschedule; late-breaking posters can be put up on any unnumbered board. Presenters should stay inthe vicinity of their poster for the first hour of the session. Please take down your poster at the endof the session; if you are unable to stay until the end, remaining posters may be removed, but will beavailable at the registration desk the next day.
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