Local R User Group Directory

Looking for R users in your area to meet, interact with, and share ideas? Why not join your local R User Group? 

Here's a directory of the local R user groups we're aware of.  If you know of a group not listed here, or need information on how to set up your own R user group, please contact community@revolutionanalytics.com, or post in the comments below.

AUSTRALIA

Canberra: Canberra R Users Group (CANRUG)

Melbourne: Melbourne R Users Group

Sydney: Sydney Users of R Forum (SURF)

CANADA

Ottawa: Ottawa Gatineau R Users Group

CHINA

Financial R User's Group: Looking for golden bugs

EUROPE

Finland: Finnish Society for Bioinformatics

France (Paris): Semin-R

France (Montpellier): Groupe des utilisateurs du logiciel R

Germany (Kassel): Kasseler useR Group

Germany (Southwest): R User Group DE-Südwest

Germany (North): R im Norden (email Rainer Feldmann)

Italy (Padua): Italy-RUG (Rante)

Poland (Warsaw/Wroclaw): Annual Polish R User Group Meeting

Slovenia (Ljubljana) Anonymous Rcoholics

Switzerland (Basel): BaselR

UK (London): LondonR

ISRAEL

Tel Aviv: Israel R User Group

JAPAN

>Nagoya: Nagoya.R

Osaka: Osaka.R

Tsukuba: Tsukuba.R

South America

Uruguay: Grupo de Usuarios de R en Uruguay (GURU)

USA

Atlanta, GA: Atlanta R User's Group

Boston, MA: New England R User's Group

Chicago, IL: Chicago R Users Group

Dallas, TX: Dallas R Users Group

Greencastle, IN: R users at DePauw University

Houston, TX: Coming Soon (sign up to the mailing list for announcements)

Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles Area R Users Group

Madison, WI: Madison Area R Users Group

New York, NY: UseR New York ; Columbia R Statistical Programming Group

Pasadena, CA: Research Methods and Analytics (R is a main topic)

Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia UseR Group

Salt Lake City, UT: Salt Lake R/Processing/Weka Users Group

San Diego, CA: San Diego R Users Group

San Francisco / Bay Area, CA: Bay Area R Users Group

Seattle, WA: Seattle UseR Group

Washington, DC: DC UseR Group

GROUPS WANTED

The following cities don't have an R user group yet, but we've had requests for information if you want to start one up:

• Portland OR, USA (there is a local data visualization group)
• Burlington VT, USA
• Denver CO, USA
• Baton Rouge LA, USA
• Dublin, Ireland 
• Zurich, Switzerland 
• Amsterdam, Netherlands 
• Durbin, South Africa

Post a comment below to connect with other R users and start a new group in your area. You can also register interest for a new R User Group in your area at meetup.com.

OTHER RESOURCES FOR FINDING LOCAL R USERS

En Español: Spanish-speaking R users can check on the mailing list r-help-es.

W Polski: Polish R users forum: Grupa użytkowników R.

South Asia: R South Asia, a mailing list to promote and discuss R in South Asia.

There is a list of R User Groups at the R Wiki.

There is a list of R User Groups on meetup.com.

Comments

[Rahul Premraj]

A user group in Amsterdam, NL?

[Anthony Staines]

Anyone interested in Dublin, Ireland R group?

[Friedrich Schuster]

I am trying to organize a R User Group for Germany (Southwest) with meetings in Mannheim or Heidelberg, maybe also Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Frankfurt (later).

I just created an initial group collaboration site at http://rug-sw.qlubb.com/public. To join this group click on the button "Request to join this Qlubb" at the upper right of the page (Joining may take a while as it has to be manually approved, sorry).

Please join or leave your address even if you're not from the exact region. Maybe you will find other people from your region this way.

[J]

Hi Anthony,
I'm interested in organizing an R group in Berlin. It'd be an English speaking group.

[Raienr Feldmann]

Hello R users in Northern Germany!
This is the initial step to set up the R user group in the Northern part of Germany: "R im Norden" (RiN). The objective of this group is to establish a local forum for R users - beginner to advanced. You can meet with other users of the R Programming Language and learn and share tricks and techniques from and with other users.
Please send a short mail indicating your interests to Rainer Feldmann: feldmann@qa-gmbh.de.

Kind Regards
Rainer

[Patricia García]

Hello,

The Spanish-speaking R users group is organizing the 1st R conferences in Spain.

We will try to create work teams and an organized users group.

You can subscribe and send talk proposals here: www.ereros.org

[Carolyn Johnston]

Anyone interested in an R Users group in Seattle WA (Eastside in particular)?

[Rama Ramakrishnan]

Hi there - Anyone interested in starting a group in the Boston area?

[Rainer Feldmann]

Rainer for RiN

Ivailo Partchev (University of Jena) asked us to inform you about a online workshop on "Statistical Programming in R", he will hold in Jena on November 21 and 22, 2009. For more information and registration: http://www.metheval.uni-jena.de.

Kind Regards
Rainer

[Dario Solari]

Italy, Padova
http://www.rante.org/

We are an association that promotes knowledge sharing and the use of open source tools in Italy. As a part of our activities, together with other people (scholars, consultants, R-lovers and so on), we are setting up a R-user group in Italy. Our headquarter is located in Padova, where also the University (Department of Statistical Sciences) mantains a CRAN Mirror. Our initial aims are : - to promote the use of R across public institutions, private companies and no-profit organisations - to collect and disseminate R materials (primers, tutorials, lectures) through our website for making them immediately available to different communities - to organise events and lectures to spread R use across our territory

Everyone who is interested in joining and helping us is really welcome.

You can contact us at info@rante.org

[Mark Seligman]

Also interested in a Seattle-area group.

[Scott Sibbel]

Hi I'm Scott from Denver, Colorado. Very new to R, but interested in starting an R group here in the Denver/Boulder area. I have a core group of users (~25) medical/biostatistical researchers that use various functions on various projects. Any information and materials you could send me would be great. We are all currently SAS users willing to learn a new language.

[David Smith]

Hi Scott. I'll send you a document with tips on how to start up a user group (one of these days I'll get around to making it into a blog post).

[Michael Chadbourne]

Hi
Im in Durban, South Africa and am keen to meet with other R users in the area.

[Kevin O'Brien]

Hi there
I would also be interested in a R group for Dublin,IE.
Regards
Kevin O'Brien.

[Daniel Ence]

Hi,
I would be interested in an R group in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

Daniel Ence

[Alexis-Michel Mugabushaka]

I am keen to meet other R users in Brussels. If anyone is interested let me know. Would also actively support the establiment of such a group.

[Alex]

St. Louis anyone?

[Alex Mc]

Any interest in a UseR group in Philadelphia?

[Jeremy Leipzig]

I would be interested in a Philadelphia UseR group.
leipzig@gmail.com

[Kate]

Hi! Anyone interested in a UseR group in Toronto, Ontario, Canada?

[Mike Boucher]

I'm also interested in joining or starting an R users group in the Boston. Please contact me at michaeljboucher@gmail.com

Regards,

Mike

[Alex]

We have a group names as "Research Methods and Analytics", but with R as a main topic, and we are in Pasadena.

see http://www.meetup.com/Research-Methods-and-Analytics/

[Jake]

I've just started an R users group in Salt Lake City, UT. Anybody in the neighborhood, please join us!

http://www.meetup.com/Salt-Lake-R-Processing-Data-Analysts-Group/

[Aaron]

I'd like to see a Minneapolis useR group...