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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Portland R User Group Meetup</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2010-09-21T19:00:00" datetime="2010-09-21T19:00:00">Tuesday, September 21, 2010 from 7</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2010-09-21T21:00:00" datetime="2010-09-21T21:00:00">9pm</time></div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Portland R User Group</p> <p>Main talk: "Getting Started with R" M. Edward (Ed) Borasky</p> <p>Lightning talk: "R in the Wild: Qmedtrix" Homer Strong</p> <p>Social hour (following talks): Le Hana Japanese Bar & Grill 3500 SW River Parkway</p> <p>Talk descriptions:</p> <p>"Getting Started with R" will cover:</p> <p>Downloading and installing R from CRAN on Windows, Mac or Linux.<br> Linux includes openSUSE, Ubuntu and Fedora. Running a few demos. The structure of CRAN. Where the documentation is on an installed system. The RSeek search engine.</p> <p>Mr. Borasky will also have .ISO files of his R-based openSUSE appliance, which is at <a href="http://borasky-research.net/about-smartznmeb/">http://borasky-research.net/about-smartznmeb/</a>. If you bring blank DVDs, copies can be burned for you. At the moment it has R, GGobi, Mondrian, Rcmdr and a bunch of natural language processing / text mining software, both in R and otherwise, and will also have the Spatial and ReproducibleResearch task views by the meeting. It will run on a 32-bit PC but may not support everyone's WiFi hardware.</p> <p>"R in the Wild: Qmedtrix" is the first of a (hopefully) recurring series of "R in the Wild" talks that explore how R is actually being used in various companies and organizations in the Portland area. Qmedtrix is "the health care reimbursement decision expert in the workers' compensation, group health and auto medical markets."</p> <p>Speaker bios:</p> <p>M. Edward (Ed) Borasky is a freelance developer / engineer specializing in applied mathematics / statistics, social media analytics research and Linux performance engineering / capacity planning. He has created Linux appliances for social media analytics research and algorithmic composition and synthesis of music. His hobby is collecting hobbies.</p> <p>Homer Strong is a research & development engineer at Qmedtrix Systems Inc. He enjoys reading through the R base package and avocado milkshakes.</p> <p>Portland, OR 97239 - USA</p> <p>Tuesday, September 21 at 7:00 PM</p> <p>Photo: <a href="http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/7/7/e/event_16962878.jpeg">http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/7/7/e/event_16962878.jpeg</a></p> <p>Details: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/portland-r-user-group/calendar/14457932/">http://www.meetup.com/portland-r-user-group/calendar/14457932/</a></p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://www.meetup.com/portland-r-user-group/calendar/14457932/">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>