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Tuesday 16th August

08:45 - 09:00 Introductory Remarks, MS.01/MS.02
09:00 - 09:45 Invited Talk, MS.01/MS.02, Chair: Heather Turner
Brian Ripley The R Development Process
09:50 - 10:50 Kaleidoscope Ia, MS.03, Chair: Dieter Menne
Claudia Beleites Spectroscopic Data in R and Validation of Soft Classifiers: Classifying Cells and Tissues by Raman Spectroscopy [Slides]
Jonathan Rosenblatt Revisiting Multi-Subject Random Effects in fMRI [Slides]
Zoe Hoare Putting the R into Randomisation [Slides]
Kaleidoscope Ib, MS.01, Chair: Simon Urbanek
Teh Amouh Bringing the power of complex data analysis methods into R
Markus Gesmann Using the Google Visualisation API with R [Slides]
Matthew S. Shotwell Experimenting with a tty connection for R
Kaleidoscope Ic, MS.02, Chair: Achim Zeileis
David Smith The R Ecosystem [Slides]
E. James Harner Rc2: R collaboration in the cloud [Slides]
J.J. Allaire RStudio: Integrated Development Environment for R
10:50 - 11:15 Coffee, Main atrium and Mathematics Workroom, A0.05
11:15 - 12:35 Portfolio Management, B3.02, Chair: Patrick Burns
Jagrata Minardi R in the Practice of Risk Management Today [Slides]
Rocco Claudio Cannizzaro Stress Testing with R-Adamant
Jovan Njegic Handling Multiple Time Scales in Hedge Fund Index Products
Bioinformatics and High-Throughput Data, B3.03, Chair: Hervé Pagès
Thierry Onkelinx AFLP: generating objective and repeatable genetic data [Slides]
Przemysław Biecek The nz.seq package for handling genetic sequences in the Netezza Performance Server
Stefanie Tauber Classification of Coverage Patterns
Norma Coffey Finite Mixture Model Clustering of SNP Data
High Performance Computing, MS.03, Chair: Stefan Theussl
Willem Ligtenberg GPU computing and R [Slides]
Pragneshkumar B. Patel Deploying and Benchmarking R on a Large Shared Memory System
Kazutaka Doi The CUtil package which enables GPU computation in R
Manuel Quesada OBANSoft: integrated software for Bayesian statistics and high performance computing with R [Slides]
Reporting Technologies and Workflows, MS.01, Chair: Martin Mächler
Nathan Uyttendaele R2wd: writing Word Documents from R
Dmitry Bliznyk FRAD - Fast Results Analysis and Display
Andreas Leha The Emacs Org-mode: Reproducible Research and Beyond [Slides]
Peter Baker Efficient data analysis workflow in R
Teaching, MS.02, Chair: Jay G. Kerns
Ian Holliday Teaching Statistics to Psychology Students using Reproducible Computing package RC and supporting Peer Review Framework [Slides]
Kristian Hovde Liland Teaching applied statistics to students in natural sciences using the R Commander
Achim Zeileis Automatic generation of exams in R [Slides]
12:35 - 14:00 Lunch, Rootes Restaurant
14:00 - 14:45 Invited Talk, MS.01/MS.02, Chair: David Firth
Ulrike Grömping Design of Experiments in R [Slides] [Video]
14:45 - 15:30 Invited Talk, MS.01/MS.02, Chair: David Firth
Jonathan Rougier Nomograms for visualising relationships between three variables [Slides] [Video]
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee, Main atrium and Mathematics Workroom, A0.05
16:00 - 17:00 Modelling Systems and Networks, B3.02, Chair: Jonathan Rougier
Rachel Oxlade An S4 Object structure for emulation - the approximation of complex functions [Slides]
Robert J. B. Goudie The structmcmc package: Structural inference of Bayesian networks using MCMC
Christophe Dutang Computation of generalized Nash equilibria [Slides]
Computational Physics and Chemometrics, B3.03, Chair: Claudia Beleites
Irina Roslyakova Segmented regression in thermo-physics modeling
Katarina Domijan Sparse Bayesian kernel projections for classification of near-infrared spectroscopy data
Jinhie Skarda Recovering Signals and Information From Radio Frequencies Using R (A high school student's experience)
Visualisation, MS.04, Chair: Antony Unwin
Andrej Blejec animatoR: dynamic graphics in R [Slides]
Richard M. Heiberger Graphical Syntax for Structables and their Mosaic Plots [Slides]
Alexander Pilhöfer RMB: Visualising categorical data with Relative Multiple Barcharts
Official and Social Statistics, MS.03, Chair: Mark van der Loo
Neil Diamond ObsSensitivity: An R package for power analysis for sensitivity analyses of Observational Studies
Jason Bryer Visualizing Multilevel Propensity Score Analysis
Dimensionality Reduction and Variable Selection, MS.01, Chair: Matthias Schmid
Marie Chavent ClustOfVar: an R package for the clustering of variables [Slides]
Jürg Schelldorfer Variable Screening and Parameter Estimation for High-Dimensional Generalized Linear Mixed Models Using l1-Penalization [Slides]
Benjamin Hofner gamboostLSS: boosting generalized additive models for location, scale and shape [Slides]
Business Management, MS.02, Chair: Enrico Branca
Marlene S. Marchena SCperf: An inventory management package for R [Slides]
Pairach Piboonrungroj Using R to test transaction cost measurement for supply chain relationship: A structural equation model [Slides]
Fabrizio Ortolani Integrating R and Excel for automatic business forecasting
17:05 - 18:05 Lightning Talks
18:30 - 20:00 Dinner (Rootes Restaurant, for participants staying in campus accommodation)
20:00 - 23:00 Poster Session, Panorama Suite, Rootes Building



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