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.

If you're thinking of starting a local R user group yourself, Revolution Analytics offers sponsorships for both new and established groups, and has provided some tips for starting a new R user group.

ASIA

China: Financial R User's Group: Looking for golden bugs

China (Macao): R-Research

China (Shanghai/East China): ShanghaiR (in English)

India (Bangalore): Bangalore R Users - BRU

India (New Delhi): New Delhi UseR Group

Japan (Chiba): Kashiwa.R

Japan (Nagoya): Nagoya.R

Japan (Osaka): Osaka.R

Japan (Tokyo): Tokyo.R

Japan (Tsukuba): Tsukuba.R

Philippines (Quezon City, Metro Manila): Philippines R Users' Group

Singapore: R User Group - Singapore (RUGS)

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

South Korea (Seoul): Korea R User's Group

Taiwan (Taipei): Chinese Academy of R Software (CARS), Taiwan UseR Group

Thailand (Chang Mai): Chang Mai R User Group

 

CANADA

Edmonton: Edmonton R User Group

Montréal: Montreal R User Group

Ottawa: Ottawa Gatineau R Users Group

Québec: Plein-R (en Français)

Toronto: Greater Toronto Area (GTA) R User's Group ; R Matlab Users (finance oriented)

Vancouver: Vancouver R Users Group

 

EUROPE

Austria (Vienna): Vienna<-R

Belgium (Brussels): RBelgium

Finland: Finnish Society for Bioinformatics

France (Paris): Semin-R

France (Montpellier): Groupe des utilisateurs du logiciel R

Germany (Dresden): Research Garden

Germany (Geißen): Giessen R Users Group

Germany (Kassel): Kasseler useR Group

Germany (Köln): Köln R User Group

Germany (Leipzig): Leipzig R Statistical Computing

Germany (Mannheim/Ludwigshafen/Heidelberg area): R User Group Rhein-Neckar

Germany (Marburg): Marburg R Local User Group

Germany (Munich): Munich useR Group

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

Germany (Nürnberg): NürnbergR

Germany (Wiesbaden): Wiesbaden R Users Group

Ireland (Belfast): Belfast R Users

Ireland (Dublin): Dublin-R

Italy (Milan): MilanoR

Italy (Padua): Italy-RUG (Rante)

Italy (Torino): Torino R net

Lithuania: VilniusR

Luxembourg: LuxR

Netherlands (Amsterdam): amst-R-dam

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

Poland (Poznań): Poznań R Users

Poland (virtual): W Polski, Polish R users forum: Grupa użytkowników R.

Russia (PERM): PeRm R Group

Serbia (Belgrade): Sav taj R

Slovenia (Ljubljana): Anonymous Rcoholics

Spain (Barcelona): RUGBCN

Spain (Madrid): Grupo de Interés Local de Madrid

Sweden (Stockholm): Stockholm R useR group (StockholmR)

Switzerland (Basel): BaselR

Switzerland (Geneva): GenevaR

Switzerland (Zurich): ZurichR

Turkey:Turkish Community of R
 

UK (Birmingham): Birmingham R Users Meeting (BRUM)

UK (Cambridge): CambR

UK (London): LondonR

UK (Manchester): ManchesterR

MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA

Durbin: Durbin R User Group

Israel: Israel R User Group

OCEANIA (AUSTRALIA / NZ)

Adelaide, SA: Adelaide R-users group

Brisbane, QLD: Group for R Users in Brisbane (GRUB) - inactive

Canberra, ACT: Canberra R Users Group (CANRUG)

Hobart, TAS: Hobart R Users Group (HRUG)

Melbourne, VIC: Melbourne Users of R Network (MelbURN)

Sydney, NSW: Sydney Users of R Forum (SURF)

Auckland, NZ: Auckland-R-Users-Group (AKLRUG)

 

SOUTH / CENTRAL AMERICA

Argentina (Buenos Ares): .AR 

Brazil (virtual): Brasil R_STAT

Brazil (virtual): R-br: the Brazilian R-community

Chile (Santiago): Grupo de Usuarios de R en Chile

Nicaragua (Managua): Usuarios R Nicaragua

Uruguay: Grupo de Usuarios de R en Uruguay

 

USA (sorted by state)

Berkeley, CA: The Berkeley R Language Beginner Study Group

Davis, CA: Davis R Users' Group

Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles Area R Users Group

Orange County, CA: Orange County R User Group

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

San Diego, CA: San Diego R Users Group

San Francisco / Bay Area, CA: Bay Area R Users Group ; R-Ladies SF

Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara R Users

Denver, CO: Denver R User Group

Stamford, CT: Connecticut R Users Group

Washington, DC: DC UseR Group

Atlanta, GA: Atlanta R User's Group

Chicago, IL: Chicago R Users Group

Greencastle, IN: R users at DePauw University

Kansas City, KS: Kansas City R Users Group

Boston, MA: Greater Boston useR Group

Medford, MA: R Users Group at Tufts (RUGraT)

Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN: Twin Cities R User Group

Saint Louis, MO: Saint Louis R User Group

Raleigh-Durham, NC: Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill R Users Group

Cincinnati/Dayton, OH: CinDay RUG

Cleveland, OH: Cleveland UseR Group

Portland, OR: Portland R User Group (there is also a local data visualization group)

Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia UseR Group

New Jersey, NJ: NewJerseyR

New York, NY: New York R Statistical Programming Meetup 

New York, NY: Columbia R Statistical Programming Group

Knoxville, TN: Knoxville R Users Group (KRUG)

Austin, TX: Austin R User Group

Dallas, TX: Dallas R Users Group

Edinburg, TX: University of Texas Pan-American (UTPA) R Users Group

Houston, TX: Houston R Users Group

San Antonio, TX: Alamo City R Users Group

Madison, WI: Madison Area R Users Group

Milwaukee, WI: The Milwaukee Chapter of the ASA hosts occasional R workshops

Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah R Users Group

Seattle, WA: Seattle 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:

• Pittsburgh, PA
• Phoenix, AZ
• Burlington VT, USA
• Baton Rouge LA, USA
• Charlotte, NC
• Durbin, South Africa
• Kenya
• Austria
• São Paulo, Brazil
• India (TamilNad)
• Montreal, Quebec

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.

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...

[dhon buenavista]

Mabuhay!

I'm from the Islands of Philippines. I want to form R Group here in Manila. Contact me dhon.buenavista@roberts.com.ph Or fgbuenavista@yahoo.com

[lee]

hi,

i've started an R user group in singapore

feel free to post

cheers

[Manoel Galdino]

Any interest in a UseR group in São Paulo, Brazil?

[Mike]

I would be interested in a useR group in Cincinnati.
Mike

[Tim]

Spain: Barcelona
tim.riffe@gmail.com

Anyone interested in starting up a BCN RUG? I’m a gradstudent at the UAB and am interested in forming a local R-user community. I can organize space on the UAB campus, but could meet elsewhere.

Algú vol formar un grup de usuaris de R a BCN? Soc estudiant de posgrau a la UAB. Puc organitzar espai a la UAB o reunir a qualsevol lloc a la ciutat. Envia’m un correu!

[Bob]

Connecticut anyone?

[Vignesh]

Hi..
I'd like to start a UserGroup in India (TamilNad).
Please guide.

Vignesh M

[Saket]

For R users in India, check the R South Asia group

http://groups.google.co.in/group/r-sa

Thanks

Saket

[david salmela]

would also like a Minneapolis/Saint Paul users group

[Erik Iverson]

There is now a Twin Cities R User group (Minneapolis, St. Paul, MN). Please join the meetup.com group and RSVP for the next meeting if you can make it.

Looking forward to meeting you all.

http://www.meetup.com/twincitiesrug/

[schubert]

Hi all,

any R users in the Philippines? im sure you're out there, i'm just not sure how to get to you. i'm from a local university here in Manila, and im thinking of contacting Statistics students from other universities to group together to form a local R group here in Manila. please help spread the word.

kind regards!

[muondo]

merçi d'avoir indiqué cette liste,j'ai trouvé mon bonheur! merçi.

[Shreyas]

Anyone up for Indianapolis-West Lafayette-Bloomington R User Group?

[Kent Russell]

am going to set up Birmingham Alabama r users group; please let me know if anyone is interested

[rory cawley]

I'm about to start a group for dublin, ireland. I'll post the details shortly.

[Krishnan]

I have started a Tallahassee R Users Group and have scheduled a meeting on April 3 at 4 PM at New Leaf Market (The Dining Area). Hope to see some people there.

[Krishnan]

Sorry forgot to give the url - http://www.meetup.com/Tallahassee-R-Users-Group/

[jude]

Hi,
Looking to start one here in Nairobi..Kenya very soon

[Daniele Amberti]

There is a new users group in Italy: Torino R net
www.TorinoR.net

first meeting on 16th June, please update above list and calendar, there is an ical at TorinoR.net/events.ical

[David Smith]

Hi Daniele, Torino R net is now on the list -- thanks!

[Robert Rankin]

Aloha,

We're looking to start an R UseR GRoup in Hawai'i (HI,USA). Most users I know are on Maui, but perhaps we can begin with a distributed group via e-conferencing to include persons on all islands. I can organize space at my research department, which is mostly focused on wildlife, but we'd welcome persons and perspectives from many other disciplines. Please contact robertrankin AT pacificwhale DOT org.

Mahalo,
Rob

[Stephen]

Aloha Rob,

I'm a postdoc in bioinformatics at the UH Manoa Cancer Center. There are several of us here that use R regularly, and I for one would be very interested in attending an R UseR GRoup. I'm on Oahu, but woul dbe interested in e-conferencing if I can figure out how my institution would handle that.

Stephen

[Juan Pablo Brana]

Thank you very much for adding aR as the Argentina R Users Group.
As for now we are a few members but very qualified proffessionals in fields such us medicine, bioinformatics, agriculture, banking and finance.
We hope to have our first meeting in september 2011 in Buenos Aires.
Thanks again and we'll keep you posted for updates.

[haidari]

please send me more informations about R

[Sebastian Vallejo]

Hi! There's a new R Users Group in Uruguay.
Public website:
http://uyrug.wordpress.com/

[David Smith]

Thanks Sebastian. There used to be a Google group at: https://sites.google.com/site/grupousuariosruruguay/ (no longer accessible), so I replaced the link with the WordPress site.

[John P. Hilbert]

I am interested in starting an Predictive Modelling Group in the Pittsburgh, PA area. Though primarily directed towards R users, I would like to keep it open to other software such as SAS, Statistica, and programming languages such as C#.

Although we are wedged between the Cincinnati and the Philidelphia groups, I am curious (and hopeful) that there may be a small local community interested in gathering and swapping ideas. It would be open to all and should cater to the corporate and academic communities alike.

Email me at jphilbert@gmail.com if interested!

[lili darto]

merci pour les liens et la liste! les groupes italiens merci!

[istern]

great, thanks for this list!

[Andy Thornton]

Any R users in Phoenix? Email me at thor555@gmail.com

[Andy Thornton]

Edit to above comment. Email me at thor5551@gmail.com

[Jonathan Tremblay]

Speaking for a few interested in montreal here!

[S Malec]

IF IN Pittsburgh THEN email: scott dot malec @t gmail dot com

[W.D.]

Planning to start up R User group in Vienna, Austria?
Already did some prep work on meetup.com (http://www.meetup.com/ViennaR/)
So if you are interested have a look and get in touch.
Greetings,
WD

[Matt Poulton]

I would like to start an R users group in Phoenix, AZ. Please call me or email me if you are interested.

435-215-1775

Matt

[Mark Lefcowitz]

I am interested in forming a group interested in starting a R Users Group in the general Quantico area of Virgina.

If interested, please contact me at my gmail account.

Mark Lefcowitz
mlefcowitz@gmail.com

[Lorenzho]

I have not seen a group of users in Peru, if they know of any please let me know.

regards,

Lorenzho

[sameer]

How about a Mumbai R users group?
It is surprising that it is not listed here yet.
How do i get that done?

[opinionway]

Thanks for this list!

There is a group for Paris (France)?

[Rees Morrison]

I am trying to organize an R user group in the Princeton New Jersey area.

[Robert Rankin]

Perth, Western Australia
Anyone in Perth wanting to start an R User group?

[swinabhinash@ymail.com]

Exactly how about a Mumbai R users group?It is astonishing it is not listed here but.Just how do i get that done.
Québec naturopathie

[Andrew Collier]

Hi, I am keen to set up a users' group in Durban, South Africa.

[Sara]

Hi,
We are in Cape Town, South Africa, and we are in a desparate need for an R usergroup for the IIDMM (Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine).
Thanks,

Sara

[Gokmen Zararsiz]

Hi,

We have initialized the Turkish useR group: http://www.meetup.com/Turkish-Community-of-R/

What do we need to do to list it in this page?

Thanks,

Gokmen

[Ian jay]

Hi Sara,
I am in the department of construction economics and management at UCT and currently have a MSc student using R for his research. I cannot see you on the web site for your department. If you can contact me perhaps we can start something within UCT and then let it grow from there.
Regards
Ian