Conference Program

On Wednesday, May 19, there is the welcome reception where you can already register. Click here for the full social program.
A print version of the program is available as pdf.

Conference sites:

Freihaus, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, 1040 Wien (Keynote lectures, useR! world sessions)
Main Building, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Wien (useR! island sessions)

	Thursday May 20		Friday May 21		Saturday May 22
	08:00-08:45 Registration 08:45-09:00 Opening: Dietmar Dorninger
09:00-10:30	Keynote Lectures (Room: HS1) Chair: Douglas Bates Paul Murrell `grid` Graphics and Programming Martin Mächler Good Programming Practice		Keynote Lectures (Room: HS1) Chair: Paul Murrell Luke Tierney Namespaces & Byte Compilation Kurt Hornik Packaging, Documentation, Testing		Keynote Lectures (Room: HS1) Chair: Kurt Hornik Friedrich Leisch S4 Classes and Methods Peter Dalgaard Language Interfaces (`.Call` & `.External`)
10:30-10:50	Coffee Break		Coffee Break		Coffee Break
10:50-12:40	The useR! World (Room: HS1) Kaleidoscope 1 Chair: Martyn Plummer Contributions		The useR! World (Room: HS1) Kaleidoscope 2 Chair: Brian D. Ripley Contributions		The useR! World (Room: HS1) Kaleidoscope 3 Chair: Roger Bivand Contributions
	useR! Island Preview by John Fox: Teaching & User Interfaces		useR! Island Preview by Roger Bivand: Spatial Statistics		The R Foundation introduced by Friedrich Leisch
12:40-14:00	Lunch		Lunch		Lunch
14:00-14:45	Keynote Lecture (Room: HS1) Chair: Martin Mächler Douglas Bates Multilevel Models in R: Present & Future		Keynote Lecture (Room: HS1) Chair: Peter Dalgaard Brian D. Ripley Datamining: Large Databases and Methods		Trip to the Wachau, visit of Stift Melk & Conference Dinner social program Departure in Vienna: 14:30
14:45-15:15	Coffee Break		Coffee Break
15:15-16:30	The useR! World (semi-plenary)		The useR! World (semi-plenary)
	Finance (Room: HS1) Chair: Dirk Eddelbuettel Contributions	Biostatistics (Room: HS5) Chair: Axel Benner Contributions	Interfaces (Room: HS1) Chair: Martin Theus Contributions	Data Analysis (Room: HS5) Chair: Uwe Ligges Contributions
	useR! Island Preview: Finance, Econometrics, Models & Inference	useR! Island Preview: Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Ecology	useR! Island Preview: Connectivity, Software	useR! Island Preview: Applications, Data Analysis
16:45-18:15	useR! Islands (Room: Prechtl-Saal, Main Building) Biostatistics (Chair: Andy Liaw) Ecology (Chair: Martyn Plummer) Finance (Chair: Dirk Eddelbuettel) Models & Inference (Chair: Duncan Murdoch) Teaching (Chair: John Fox) User Interfaces (Chair: Uwe Ligges)		useR! Islands (Room: Prechtl-Saal, Main Building) Applications (Chair: Marc Schwartz) Bioinformatics (Chair: Axel Benner) Connectivity (Chair: Simon Urbanek) Data Analysis (Chair: Martin Theus) Econometrics (Chair: Roger Koenker) Software (Chair: Friedrich Leisch) Spatial Statistics (Chair: Roger Bivand)
Evening	-		-

Thursday 20 08:45-09:00	Opening Dietmar Dorninger (Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation)
	The useR! World
Thursday 20 11:00-12:30	Kaleidoscope 1 Chris Volinsky Graph Data in R, a User's Perspective Andrew Martin and Kevin Quinn MCMCpack: An Evolving R Package for Bayesian Inference Jim Porzak Doing Customer Intelligence with R Simon Urbanek Using R in other Applications - various practical ways to integrate an own software and R [slides] John Fox Getting Started with the R Commander: A Basic-Statistics Graphical User Interface to R Back to Overview \| Session Format
Thursday 20 15:30-16:30	Finance Dirk Eddelbuettel Programming with financial data: Connecting R to MIM and Bloomberg Giles Heywood Irregular Time Series in a Financial Risk Model Bernhard Pfaff useR! - at an investment bank? Back to Overview \| Session Format
Thursday 20 15:30-16:30	Biostatistics Frank Bretz, Torsten Hothorn and Peter Westfall On Multiple Comparisons in R Michael G. Schimek and Wolfgang Schmidt An empirical Bayes method for gene expression analysis in R David Firth Structured Bradley-Terry models, and flat lizards fighting Back to Overview \| Session Format
Friday 21 11:00-12:30	Kaleidoscope 2 Andy Liaw An Advanture in randomForest: A Set of Machine Learning Tools Ray Brownrigg Using R for Statistical Seismology Jeff Coombs R and S-PLUS: Similar but different? Matthew Pocernich, Eric Gilleland and Doug Nychka R at NCAR Sébastien Ollier, Sandrine Pavoine and Daniel Chessel Interaction among R developers: illustrations through ade4 package Back to Overview \| Session Format
Friday 21 15:30-16:30	Interfaces Martin Theus and Markus Helbig JGR: a unified interface to R Eric Lecoutre R2HTML package: formatting HTML output on the fly or by using a template scheme Richard Waterman and Thomas Hurley A stateful R web-interface, leveraging XML and XSLT Back to Overview \| Session Format
Friday 21 15:30-16:30	Data Analysis Christian Röver, Nils Raabe, Karsten Luebke and Uwe Ligges klaR: A Package Including Various Classification Tools Shusaku Tsumoto and Shoji Hirano Rough Set based Rule Induction Package for R Jorge Cadima, Jorge Orestes Cerdeira, Antonio Pedro Duarte Silva and Manuel Minhoto The subselect package - Selecting variable subsets in an exploratory data analysis Back to Overview \| Session Format
Saturday 22 11:00-12:30	Kaleidoscope 3 Roger Koenker Additive models for nonparametric regression: Adventures in sparse linear algebra Thomas Petzoldt Implementation and Simulation of Ecological Models in R: an Interactive Approach Günter Tirler, Pierre L'Ecuyer and Josef Leydold RNGstreams - An R package for multiple independent streams of uniform random numbers Ivan Mizera LSD plots: some aspects of their implementation in R Uwe Ligges tuneR - Analysis of Music Back to Overview \| Session Format
	The useR! Islands
Thursday 20 16:45-18:15	Biostatistics Oliver Sailer crossdes - A Package for Design and Randomization in Crossover Studies Christian Ritz and Jens C. Streibig Bioassay analysis using R Christopher Jackson Multi-state Markov modelling with R Maarten Schipper, Monique Breteler and Theo Stijnen Multiple Imputation and Model Selection in Cox Regression: Estimating the Risk of Dementia in Elderly M.Reza Keyhani, Mahtab Roohi-Azizi, Ismaeel Ebrahimi, Mina Milani, Elaheh Zowghi and Hossain Talebi Anova for Repeated Measures and Skewed Response Variable: Two Examples from Medical Fields Back to Overview \| Session Format
Thursday 20 16:45-18:15	Ecology Martin Schlather and Bernd Huwe Modelling water flux Eric Gilleland, Rick Katz and Greg Young The Extreme Value Toolkit (extRemes): Weather and Climate Applications of Extreme Value Statistics Roberto Rea, Giambattista Toller and Emanuele Eccel Using R for producing a monthly Agrometeorological report Laurence Kell, Philippe Grosjean, David Die and Robert Scott FLR, A Framework For Fisheries Management In R Using S4 Classes Back to Overview \| Session Format
Thursday 20 16:45-18:15	Finance Harald Schmidbauer Determining Extreme Returns on Stock Indices John Gavin Portfolio modelling of operational losses [slides] John Randal Option pricing using R John Randal and Peter Thomson Teaching applied finance using R Diethelm Wuertz Rmetrics - An Environment for Teaching Financial Engineering and Computational Finance Back to Overview \| Session Format
Thursday 20 16:45-18:15	Models & Inference Alessandra Rosalba Brazzale and Ruggero Bellio hoa -- A package bundle for higher order likelihood inference Bettina Grün and Friedrich Leisch BayesMix: An R package for Bayesian Mixture Modelling Angi Rösch Fitting the Generalized Pareto Distribution to Threshold Exceedances of Stock Index Returns in Bull and Bear Periods Xavier Font Aragonés Relaxing Error Assumptions on Dynamic Models Helgi Tomasson Signal noise decomposition of financial data: An infrequent trading analysis Back to Overview \| Session Format
Thursday 20 16:45-18:15	Teaching Thomas Baier and Erich Neuwirth Using R in a Distributed Computer Lab for Statistics Courses Christian Grune, Albert Geukes and Negar Razi The Statistical Lab - Teaching and Learning Statistics Mieke Vandewaetere, Eva Van den Bussche and Yves Rosseel Using R and SPSS simultaneously in teaching statistics: A tricky business Zdenek Valenta Exploiting Simulation Features of R in Teaching Biostatistics Back to Overview \| Session Format
Thursday 20 16:45-18:15	User Interfaces Eric Lecoutre and Philippe Grosjean SciViews package: the SciViews package and its object browser James Wettenhall GUI Development with R-wxPython and BoaConstructor Vojtech Janousek, Colin Farrow and Vojtech Erban Opening the treasury of R language to a wider scientific community: GCDkit, a package for interpretation of geochemical data Chad Shaw, Nathan Whitehouse and Andrew Young Rho: An Integrated System for R-based Web Applications Juan M. Vaquerizas, Joaquín Dopazo and Ramón Díaz-Uriarte Merging R into the web: DNMAD and Tnasas, web-based resources for microarray data analysis Janko Dietzsch, Matthias Zschunke and Kay Nieselt R inside - let R drive your bioinformatic application Back to Overview \| Session Format
Friday 21 16:45-18:15	Applications Eryk Witold Wolski, Thomas Kreitler, Johan Gobom and Knut Reinert Use R for Peptide Mass Fingerprinting M.Reza Keyhani, Hossain Farahini, Ismaeel Ebrahimi and Navid Taheri Performance of Spinal Supporting Muscles under Different Angles of Spinal Flexion for 4 Combination of Flexion/Extension and Sitting / Standing Positions Clara Cordeiro and M. Manuela Neves Using R for predicting air traffic András Lõw Simulating Society in R Maja Pohar and Gaj Vidmar Replacing Cluttered Scatterplots With Augmented Convex Hull Plots Christian Gold Creating graphs of meta-analyses with R [code] Back to Overview \| Session Format
Friday 21 16:45-18:15	Bioinformatics Margherita Mutarelli, Luigi Cicatiello, Alessandro Weisz and Angelo Facchiano Comparative analysis of the oestrogen-responsive gene expression profile of breast cancer cells with three different microarray platforms Andreas Buneß, Wolfgang Huber, Holger Sültmann and Annemarie Poustka arrayMagic: two-colour DNA array quality control and preprocessing David Casado and Ramón Díaz-Uriarte Molecular signatures from gene expression data: algorithm development using R Steffen Durinck, Joke Allemeersch, Yves Moreau and Bart De Moor RMAGEML: integrating MAGE-ML format microarray data and Bioconductor David Henderson PRSG_Nirvana, A parallel tool to assess differential gene expression Back to Overview \| Session Format
Friday 21 16:45-18:15	Connectivity Thomas Baier and Erich Neuwirth Embedding R in Windows applications, and executing R remotely Edward Debevec and Eric Rexstad Creating Online R Functions with deliveR John Paolillo R-parse: A Natural Language Processing Application of R Mark Demesmaeker Deployment of validated statistical algorithms within an end-user's application Back to Overview \| Session Format
Friday 21 16:45-18:15	Data Analysis Pablo Emilio Verde, Christian Ohmann, Christof Kugler and Geraedts Max Mining some medical information in a fee database Shusaku Tsumoto and Shoji Hirano Application of R to Data Mining in Hospital Information Systems Yutaka Hamaoka Why R Project Succeeded? - A Comparison of Open Source Software Projects Using R Back to Overview \| Session Format
Friday 21 16:45-18:15	Econometrics Arne Henningsen Microeconomic Analysis with R Christian Kleiber Distributions of finite and infinite quadratic forms in R Wai Kwong Cheang Calculating the autocovariances of fractional ARIMA model Sven Knoth Statistical Process Control and R: A cautious beginning Hiroyuki Kawakatsu metrics: Towards a package for doing econometrics in R Back to Overview \| Session Format
Friday 21 16:45-18:15	Software Dirk Eddelbuettel, Douglas Bates and Albrecht Gebhardt Using R on Debian: Past, Present, and Future Dirk Eddelbuettel Quantian: A single-system image scientific cluster computing environment Duncan Murdoch Orientlib: Using S Version 4 Objects Andrew Thomas Using meta-programming to make BRugs from BUGS and R Thomas König and Klaus Jünemann and Matthias Burger RUnit-A Software Development And Test Package Xavier Font Aragonés Computational cost and time threads Back to Overview \| Session Format
Friday 21 16:45-18:15	Spatial Statistics Roger Bivand, Edzer Pebesma and Barry Rowlingson Generic functions for spatial data Albrecht Gebhardt and Claudia Gebhardt Bayesian Methods in Geostatistics: Using prior knowledge about trend Nadine Henkenjohann spatialreg - A package to fit spatial regression models with isotropic and anisotropic covariance functions Juergen Pilz and Philipp Pluch and Gunter Spoeck Taking into account uncertainty in spatial covariance estimation for Bayesian prediction Back to Overview \| Session Format

Session Format

useR! World Sessions
These sessions will be plenary or semi-plenary with the "usual" sequence of oral presentations and discussions. Each speaker has a slot of 20 minutes which should cover both the presentation and time for questions. The morning sessions should be a kaleidoscope of different applications/usages of R - speakers should keep in mind that the audience will be R users with very heterogenous backgrounds and not experts in the particular field of the presentation. The afternoon sessions will be a bit more specialized focusing on several topics of current interest.
The lecture rooms will be equipped with an LCD projector ("beamer") and a laptop. For smooth transitions between the talks it would be very helpful to receive the slides as a pdf file (no powerpoint please) a week before the conference starts.

useR! Island Sessions
These sessions will be open space sessions with "islands" corresponding to a topic of special interest. Each island will have an overhead projector, a table, power sockets, internet connection, and facilities for putting up posters. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops and actually show the way they use R to the other participants on their island. This form of presentation will not be the "usual" poster presentation but each island should rather be a workshop-like platform for the exchange between users with similar interests and spawn discussions which would not be able in a multi-track format.
The useR! island sessions are moderated by a chair. To start the discussion, each participant should prepare a brief presentation of not more than 5 minutes. Announcements for each useR! island will be made during the (semi-)plenary useR! world sessions by one of the chairs.
If you want to put up a poster: the size of each poster display is approximately 100x200cm and a poster size of ISO A0 is recommended. Posters must be fastened with sticky tape (no pins). A supply of tape will be available.

useR-org@ci.tuwien.ac.at