Conference site: Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Main Building, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien, Austria.
The program includes several half-day tutorials (prior to the conference on June 14), and a social program. A print version of the program is available as pdf.
The abstracts and slides for all presentations can be browsed as a HTML page and the book of abstracts is available in a single PDF document.
Thursday
June 15
Friday
June 16
Saturday
June 17
08:00-08:45 Registration
08:45-09:00 Opening
09:00-10:30
Keynote Lectures (Room: Audimax)
Chair: Paul Murrell
John Chambers
A History of S and R (with some questions for the future)
Peter Rossi
Bayesian Statistics with Marketing Data in R
Keynote Lectures (Room: Audimax)
Chair: Luke Tierney
Jan de Leeuw
R in Psychometrics and Psychometrics in R
Brian Everitt
Cluster Analysis: Past, Present and Future
Keynote Lectures (Room: Audimax)
Chair: Friedrich Leisch
Trevor Hastie
Data Mining in R: Path Algorithms
Paul Murrell
Can R Draw Graphs?
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
useR! Kaleidoscope
useR! Kaleidoscope
useR! Kaleidoscope
Thursday 1 (Room: HS 0.1)
Chair: Simon Jackman
Contributions
Thursday 2 (Room: HS 0.2)
Chair: Thomas Lumley
Contributions
Thursday 3 (Room: HS 0.3)
Chair: Anthony Rossini
Contributions
Friday 1 (Room: HS 0.1)
Chair: Martyn Plummer
Contributions
Friday 2 (Room: HS 0.2)
Chair: Duncan Murdoch
Contributions
Friday 3 (Room: HS 0.3)
Chair: Gerhard Tutz
Contributions
Saturday (Room: Audimax)
Chair: Douglas Bates
Contributions
12:30-13:00
Lunch
Lunch
Coffee Break
13:00-14:00
Panel discussion (Room: Audimax)
Chair: Kurt Hornik
14:00-14:45
Keynote Lecture (Room: Audimax)
Chair: Martin Mächler
Stefano Iacus, Uwe Ligges and Simon Urbanek
R on Different Platforms: The useRs' Point of View
Keynote Lecture (Room: Audimax)
Chair: Peter Dalgaard
John Fox and Sanford Weisberg
UseR! for Teaching
14:45-15:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
useR! Focus: Spotlights & Forum
Bayesian Methods & Graphical Models
(Chair: Andrew Martin, Rooms: HS 0.1, Aula 1)
Connectivity, Web-based Computing and Parallelization
(Chair: Ramón Díaz-Uriarte, Rooms: HS 0.2, Aula 2)
Finance & Applied Time Series Modeling
(Chair: Dirk Eddelbuettel, Rooms: HS 0.3, Aula 3)
Applied & Medical Statistics
(Chair: Frank Harrell, Rooms: HS 0.4, Festsaal 1)
Ecology & Spatial Statistics
(Chair: Roger Bivand, Rooms: HS 0.5, Atrium)
Machine Learning
(Chair: Balasubramanian Narasimhan, Rooms: HS 0.7, Festsaal 2)
useR! Focus: Spotlights & Forum
Teaching & User Interfaces
(Chair: Uwe Ligges, Rooms: HS 0.1, Aula 1)
Visualization
(Chair: Antony Unwin, Rooms: HS 0.2, Aula 2)
Econometrics & Social Science
(Chair: Roger Koenker, Rooms: HS 0.3, Aula 3)
Omic Statistics: Genomics and Proteomics
(Chair: Axel Benner, Rooms: HS 0.4, Festsaal 1)
Business Analytics
(Chair: Peter Rossi, Rooms: HS 0.5, Atrium)
Robust Statistics
(Chair: Claudio Agostinelli, Rooms: HS 0.7, Festsaal 2)
15:00-16:30
Spotlights (Rooms: HS 0.1-0.5, 0.7)
Spotlights (Rooms: HS 0.1-0.5, 0.7)
16:30-16:45
Break
Break
16:45-18:30
Discussion and Exhibition Forum (Rooms: Aula 1-3, Festsaal 1-2, Atrium)
Discussion and Exhibition Forum (Rooms: Aula 1-3, Festsaal 1-2, Atrium)
Thursday 15
08:45-09:00
Opening
Horst Breitenstein (Vice-Rector of the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)
useR! Kaleidoscope Sessions
Thursday 15
11:00-12:30
Kaleidoscope: Thursday 1 (Room: HS 0.1)
Micah Altman, Jeff Gill and Michael McDonald
R Modules for
Accurate and Reliable Statistical Computing, Perturb package
John M. Chambers, David A. James, Diane Lambert and Scott Vander Wiel
Computation and Aggregation of Quantiles from Data Streams
Rob Hyndman
Automatic time series forecasting
Christian Kleiber and Achim Zeileis
Applied Econometrics with R
Stefan Evert and Marco Baroni
ZipfR: Working with
words and other rare events in R
Thursday 15
11:00-12:30
Kaleidoscope: Thursday 2 (Room: HS 0.2)
Zubin Dowlaty, Dean Mao and Simon Urbanek
Enterprise Automatons with R
Douglas Wood, David Chang, Solomon Henry and Balasubramanian Narasimhan
Using R as a
web service
Philippe Grosjean
Collaborative writing of R documentation using a Wiki
Tobias Wichtrey, Alexander Gouberman, Martin Theus and Simon Urbanek
iPlots 2.0
Hadley Wickham
An implementation of the grammar
of graphics in R: ggplot
Thursday 15
11:00-12:30
Kaleidoscope: Thursday 3 (Room: HS 0.3)
Heather Turner and David Firth
gnm: A Package for Generalized Nonlinear Models
Peter Dalgaard
Repeated measures tools for multivariate linear models
Gregory Warnes, Max Kuhn and Jim Rogers
Open Source Software
in Pharmaceutical Research
Mike Smith, John Marioni, Natalie Thorne and Simon Tavaré
snapCGH
(segmentation, normalisation and processing of arrayCGH data)
and methods for combining with gene expression information
Alessandra R. Brazzale
Applied Asymptotics in R
Friday 16
11:00-12:30
Kaleidoscope: Friday 1 (Room: HS 0.1)
Martin Mächler and Andreas Ruckstuhl
Robust
Statistics Collaborative Package Development: 'robustbase'
Claudio Agostinelli
Robust Estimation for Circular Data using R
Kevin Quinn and Andrew Martin
Applied Bayesian Inference in
R using MCMCpack
Susan Thomas and Shobhana Vyas
Bringing transparency to
commodity markets in India: A real-world mission-critical
deployment of R
Patrick Burns
Using R to Evaluate Trading Strategies
Friday 16
11:00-12:30
Kaleidoscope: Friday 2 (Room: HS 0.2)
Kosuke Imai, Gary King and Olivia Lau
A Unified User
Interface for Single and Multi-Equation Models (aka "Zelig:
Everyone's Statistical Software")
Thomas Baier, Richard Heiberger, Erich Neuwirth and Wilfried Grossmann
Using R
for teaching statistics to nonmajors: Comparing experiences of
two different approaches
François Husson and Sébastien Lê
SensoMineR: A package
for sensory data analysis with R
Pedro Andrade Neto and Paulo Justinano Junior
aRT: R-TerraLib API
Tim Hesterberg and Chris Fraley
Least Angle Regression
Friday 16
11:00-12:30
Kaleidoscope: Friday 3 (Room: HS 0.3)
Sören Sonnenburg, Fabio De Bona and Gunnar Rätsch
SHOGUN
- A Large Scale Machine Learning Toolbox
Axel Benner
Statistical Learning for
Analyzing Functional Genomic Data
Ron Wehrens, Egon Willighagen, Willem Melssen and Lutgarde Buydens
Supervised Self-Organising Maps
Göran Broström
A fixed effects approach
to GLMs with clustered data
Mikis Stasinopoulos, Bob Rigby and Popi Akantziliotou
The generalized additive model for location, scale and shape
Saturday 17
11:00-12:30
Kaleidoscope: Saturday (Room: Audimax)
Frank Harrell
Statistical Principles to Live By
Roger Koenker
Parametric link functions
for binary response models: A Fisherian Holiday
Stephen Kaluzny
The S Package System
Brian D. Ripley
Can R speak your language?
Ivan Mizera
Graphical Exploratory Data Analysis
Using Halfspace Depth
useR! Focus Sessions
Thursday 15
15:00-18:30
Bayesian Methods & Graphical Models (Spotlights: HS 0.1, Forum: Aula 1)
Martyn Plummer
Bayesian Modeling in R with JAGS
Massimiliano Mascherini
MASTINO: A suite of R
functions to learn Bayesian Networks from data.
Luca La Rocca, Jens Henrik Badsberg and Claus Dethlefsen
The
giRaph package for graph representation in R
Giovanni Petris
Bayesian analysis of
Dynamic Linear Models in R
Markus Kalisch
pcalg: Estimating and
visualizing high-dimensional dependence structures using the
PC-algorithm
Andrew Thomas
Extending BRugs
Ravi Varadhan, Christophe Roland and Hormuzd Katki
Accelerating Any EM
Algorithm Without Sacrificing Simplicity and Stability
Regina Tüchler and Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter
Bayesian Covariance Selection in Hierarchical Linear Mixed
Models
David Lindelöf
Integrating R in an advanced building control system
Thursday 15
15:00-18:30
Connectivity, Web-based Computing and Parallelization (Spotlights: HS 0.2, Forum: Aula 2)
Jeffrey Horner
Using R/Apache as the
Statistical Engine for Web Applications
Tom Short and Philippe Grosjean
Online Applications with Rpad
Justin Harrington and Matias Salibian-Barrera
Adventures in High Performance Computing and R: Going Parallel
Nick Carriero, J. Lai, Martin Schultz, S. Weston and Greg Warnes
Parallel Computing in R using NetWorkSpaces
Tim F. Liao
Using R as a Wrapper in
Simulation Studies
Angelo Mineo and Alfredo Pontillo
Using R via PHP: R-php
Seisho Sato
Web Decomp and E-Decomp -
Time Series Analysis using R
Ramon Díaz-Uriarte, Andres Cañada, Edward Morrissey and Oscar Rueda
Asterias: An
example of using R in a web-based bioinformatics suite of
tools
Thursday 15
15:00-18:30
Finance & Applied Time Series Modeling (Spotlights: HS 0.3, Forum: Aula 3)
Tomoaki Nakatani and Timo Teräsvirta
Testing
volatility interactions in a constant conditional correlation
GARCH model
Harald Schmidbauer and Vehbi Sinan Tunalioglu
mgarch: A
Package for the Analysis of Multivariate GARCH Models
Thomas Jakobsen and Jeffrey Todd Lins
Sequential Monte Carlo Methods in R
Giulio Mignola and Roberto Ugoccioni
Statistical
Approach to Operational Risk Management
Stefano Iacus and Davide La Torre
Iterated function
system and simulation of Brownian motion
Lucas Julian Carbonaro
Studies on financial
time series analysis
Javier López-de-Lacalle
The uroot and
partsm R-Packages: Some Functionalities for Time Series
Analysis
Svetlana Unkuri
Automated Lag Order Selection and
Forecasting in VAR modeling
Robert Ferstl
Term structure and credit
spread estimation with R
Jeffrey Lins and Thomas Jakobsen
Markov Decision
Processes, Dynamic Programming, and Reinforcement Learning in
R
Thursday 15
15:00-18:30
Applied & Medical Statistics (Spotlights: HS 0.4, Forum: Festsaal 1)
Zdenek Valenta
Estimating survival from Gray's
flexible model
Ben B. Hansen
The Optmatch Package:
Flexible, Optimal Matching for Observational Studies
Juha Karvanen
Visualizing covariates
in proportional hazards model using R
Andrea Konnert
LabNetAnalysis - An
instrument for the analysis of data from laboratory networks
based on RExcel
Gemechis Dilba, Frank Schaarschmidt and Ludwig A. Hothorn
A
Package for Inference about Ratios of Normal Means
Pierre-Alois Beitinger, Romain Beitinger, Stephany Fulda and Thomas-Christian Wetter
R in clinical practice - summarizing pharmacological data
Shusaku Tsumoto and Yuko Tsumoto
Construction of
Statistical Models for Hospital Management
Elena Kulinskaya, Stephan Morgenthaler and Robert G. Staudte
Calibrating
the evidence in experiments with applications to meta-analysis
Jake Bowers and Ben Hansen
The ritools
package: Tools for Exact and Randomization Inference
Tim Hesterberg
Resampling Libraries in S-PLUS and R
Thursday 15
15:00-18:30
Ecology & Spatial Statistics (Spotlights: HS 0.5, Forum: Atrium)
Philippe Grosjean, Richard Hillary, Ernesto Jardim, Laurie
Kell, Iago Mosqueira, Jan Jaap Poos, Robert Scott and Hunter
S. Thompson
Fisheries modelling in R: The FLR (Fisheries Library in R) project
Thomas Petzoldt, Karsten Rinke and Louis Kates
Population
ecology modelling with R: A comparison of object oriented approaches
Daniel Doktor
Spatial and statistical
modelling of phenological data
T. Laurent, A. Ruiz-Gazen, and C. Thomas-Agnan
GEOXP: An R package for interactive exploratory spatial data analysis
Vojtech Janousek, Vojtech Erban and Colin Farrow
Using the R
language for graphical presentation and interpretation of
compositional data in mineralogy: Introducing the package
GCDkit-Mineral
Rudolf Dutter
Data Analysis System with Graphical Interface
Norbert Solymosi, Andrea Harnos, Jenő Reiczigel and Ferenc Speiser
RpostGIS an R-library for using PostGIS spatial structures and functions
A. Pedro Duarte Silva, Jorge Cadima, Manuel Minhoto and Jorge Orestes Cerdeira
Subselect0.99: Selecting variable subsets in multivariate linear models
Lisbeth Riis and Mikkel Grum
Using R to Reduce
Pesticide Usage in the Horticultural Industry
Keiji Osaki
Spatial characteristics of
vegetation index map in urban area derived by variogram analysis
Thursday 15
15:00-18:30
Machine Learning (Spotlights: HS 0.7, Forum: Festsaal 2)
Geoffrey Matthews and Robin Matthews
Riffle: An R Package for Nonmetric Clustering
Ralf Seger and Antony Unwin
Managing Large Sets
Of Models
Carolin Strobl, Achim Zeileis, Anne-Laure Boulesteix and Torsten Hothorn
Variable Selection Bias in
Classification Trees and Ensemble Methods
Marlene Müller
KernGPLM - A Package for
Kernel-Based Fitting of Generalized Partial Linear and
Additive Models
Harald Binder
Comparison of approaches
for fitting generalized additive models
Stefan Neubauer and Georg Dorffner
Neural network
algorithms and related models
Romain François and Florent Langrognet
Double Cross
Validation for Model Based Classification
Eduardo San Miguel
3D Semantic Knowledge
Retrieval
Clara Cordeiro, Alexandra Machás and Manuela Neves
Missing
Data, PLS and Bootstrap: A Magical Recipe?
Friday 16
15:00-18:30
Teaching and User Interfaces (Spotlights: HS 0.1, Forum: Aula 1)
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Use R fifteen
different ways: R front-ends in Quantian
Adrian Bowman and Ewan Crawford
rpanel: Simple
interactive controls for R functions using the tcltk package
Hutcha Sriplung, Edward McNeil, Apiradee Lim and Naratip Junsakul
R-ICE - A Modular R GUI
Rafael Pino Mejías and María Dolores Cubiles de la Vega
Teaching the Theory of
Information and Coding with R
Vincent Goulet
Introduction to S
programming: A teaching experience and a manual
Sigbert Klinke, Sibylle Schmerbach and Olga Troitschanskaia
Integration of R into Wikis
Mario Gellrich, Rudolf Gubler, Andreas Papritz and Andreas Schönborn
SimSurvey - An R-based E-learning tool for geo-statistical
analyses
Pin Ng
RXL - A Free Excel Add-in for
Introductory Business Statistics
Pascale Voirin, Omar Abou Khaled and Tadeusz Senn
R as integrated
engine in blended learning environment
Gunther Maier
Simple-R - A Windows-based
interface to R for basic statistics
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Friday 16
15:00-18:30
Visualization (Spotlights: HS 0.2, Forum: Aula 2)
John Emerson, Walton Green, Avi Feller and John Hartigan
SparcMats and Generalized Pairs Plots
Ching-Fan Sheu and Cheng-Te Chen
Turing Output of IRT Data Analysis into Graphs with R
Gordon Blunt
Using Grid Graphics to
produce linked micromap plots of large financial datasets
Heike Hofmann, Karen Kafadar and Hadley Wickham
Letter-Value Box Plots: Adjusting Box Plots for Large
Data Sets
Jussi Klemelä
Visualization of
multivariate functions, sets, and data with package "denpro"
Alexander Gribov
Interactive Glyph
Analysis with R
Martin Theus and Simon Urbanek
Extending Interactive Statistical Graphics
Michael Lawrence and Hadley Wickham
Rggobi2 - Bringing R and GGobi Closer
Christophe Pouzat, Andrea Ridolfi and Pascal Viot
Spike
Sorting with R and GGobi
Geoffrey Matthews
Four Dimensional Barycentric Plots in 3D
M. Rui Alves and M. Beatriz Oliveira
R algorithms
for the calculation of markers to be used in the
construction of predictive and interpolative biplot axes in
routine multivariate analyses.
Friday 16
15:00-18:30
Econometrics and Social Science (Spotlights: HS 0.3, Forum: Aula 3)
Arne Henningsen and Jeff D. Hamann
systemfit: A
Package to Estimate Simultaneous Equation Systems in R
Jeff Racine
np: A Package for Nonparametric Kernel Smoothing with Mixed Datatypes
Yves Croissant
plm: Linear models for
panel data
Christine Choirat, Paolo Paruolo and Raffaello Seri
GEAR: GNU
Econometric Analysis with R
Arne Henningsen and Ott Toomet
Microeconomic
Analysis with R
Achim Zeileis and Giovanni Millo
A framework for
heteroskedasticity-robust specification and misspecification
testing functions for linear models in R
Stefano Iacus and Giuseppe Porro
Matching and ATT
Estimation via Random Recursive Partitioning
Martin Elff, Thomas Gschwend and Ron Johnston
How Much
Can Be Inferred From Almost Nothing? A Maximum Entropy Approach to Fundamental
Indeterminacy in Ecological Inference With an Application to District-Level
Prediction of Split-Ticket Voting
Olivia Lau, Ryan Moore and Michael Kellermann
Ecological
Inference and Higher Dimension Data Management
Katarzyna Kopczewska
Geographical benefits in
socio-economics development in post-socialist
countries
Friday 16
15:00-18:30
Omic Statistics: Genomics and Proteomics (Spotlights: HS 0.4, Forum: Festsaal 1)
Gregory Warnes, Scott Chasalow, Giovanni Montana, Michael O'Connell,
David Henderson, Nitin Jain, Weiliang Qiu, Junsheng Cheng, and Ross
Lazarus
The R Genetics Project: `Bioconductor' for
Genetics
Mark Dunning, Natalie Thorne, Mike Smith and Simon Tavaré
Using R for the
Analysis of BeadArray Microarray Experiments
Oscar Rueda and Ramón Díaz-Uriarte
RJaCGH, a package for
analyisis of CGH arrays with Reversible Jump MCMC
Sukbir Singh, Loy Chen Change and Lai Weng Kin
Proteomic Mass
Spectrometry Data Analysis Software Suite
Jan Budczies and Joachim Grün
oligoExpress -
exploiting probe level information in Affymetrix GeneChip
expression data
Gregoire R. Thomas, Sven Degroeve, Luc Krols and Koen Kas
Biomarker
detection in LC-MALDI mass spectrometry proteomic profiles
using R
Eberhard Korsching, Walter Nadler and Horst Bürger
Cancer research - R
package to analyze genomic regulation and tumor pathways based on
array data from single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and comparative
genomic hybridization (CGH) experiments
Benjamin Saussen, Marc Kirchner, Hanno Steen, Judith A. J. Steen and Fred A. Hamprecht
The rpm
package: Aligning LC/MS mass spectra with R
Katharine M. Mullen and Ivo H. M. van Stokkum
TIMP: A
package for parametric modeling of multiway spectroscopic measurements
Friday 16
15:00-18:30
Business Analytics (Spotlights: HS 0.5, Forum: Atrium)
Jim Porzak
Data Profiling with R
Reinhold Hatzinger and Patrick Mair
eRm - extended Rasch modelling
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter and Christoph Pamminger
Capturing Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Austrian Labor Market
Using Finite Mixtures of Markov Chain Models
Marcello D'Orazio, Marco Di Zio and Mauro Scanu
Some
experiments on statistical matching in the R environment
Yuji Nakayama, Tomonori Ishigaki and Nagateru Araki
Estimating
Consumer Demand for Hedonic Portfolio Products: A Bayesian
Analysis using Scanner-Panel Data of Music CD Stores
Joris De Wolf, Koen Bruynseels, Rindert Peerbolte and Willem Broekbaert
The
use of R as part of a large-scale information management and
decision system
Luis Huergo, Ralf Münnich and Michaela Saisana
Robustness
assessment for composite indicators with R
Christine Choirat and Raffaello Seri
Computing Weighted
Chi-square Distributions and Related Quantities
Friday 16
15:00-18:30
Robust Statistics (Spotlights: HS 0.7, Forum: Festsaal 2)
Valentin Todorov
Robust Location and Scatter
Estimators for Multivariate Analysis
Peter Ruckdeschel and Bernhard Spangl
A Package on Robust Kalman Filtering
Andreas Baierl and Andreas Futschik
Implementation of
robust methods for locating quantitative trait loci in R
Peter Filzmoser and Heinrich Fritz
Robust Principal
Component Analysis by Projection Pursuit
Matthias Templ and Peter Filzmoser
Stability of Cluster Analysis
Jan Dienstbier and Jan Picek
Regression rank-scores tests in R
Peter Filzmoser
Outlier Detection with Application to Geochemistry
useR! 2006 has two kinds of user-contributed sessions
These are semi-plenary sessions with oral presentations of 15 minutes each. The aim is to give an overview of the many different applications and usages of the R system that should appeal to a broader audience.
Technical details: All lecture rooms are equipped with a laptop and an LCD projector. All presenters should send a PDF (preferred) or PPT file with their presentation slides to useR-submit@ci.tuwien.ac.at by 2006年06月08日 (unless the presenters need their own laptop for software demonstrations).
These sessions focus on topics of special interest and their goal is to provoke fruitful discussions in the respective user communities (e.g. Robust Statistics or Econometrics etc.). They consist of two stages: 1. spotlight presentations and 2. a big discussion and exhibition forum.
First, the spotlight presentations take place in a lecture room and
should give a structured introduction (in a discussion free-context)
to the discussion forum: each participant can briefly advertise
his/her project (in 15 or 5 minute oral presentations, respectively).
Second, presenters and audience move to the assembly hall where
each focus session has an exhibition stand. The participants can
demonstrate their software, explain the conceptual and
computational background of their applications and
discuss future directions and projects which should help
to set the course for R software projects in the respective
communities.
Technical details: For the spotlights, all presenters should
send a PDF (preferred) or PPT file with their presentation slides to
useR-submit@ci.tuwien.ac.at
by 2006年06月08日 (unless the presenters need their own laptop for
software demonstrations). The latter option is only available for the
long 15 minute spotlights (the first four spotlights in each focus
session), all short 5 minute spotlight presenters need to send in
their slides in advance to minimize the time for switching between the
talks.
For the discussion and exhibition forum, each presenter
should bring along a poster describing their project and a laptop that
can be used for further interactive demonstrations. The poster should
not be wider than 111cm (43.7in) and higher than 166.5cm
(65.6in). Posters must be fastened with sticky tape (no pins). A
supply of tape will be available. One LCD projector per focus session
is available. For the discussion and exhibition forum, there is no
formal schedule. It is up to the participants to either start with an
organized demonstration/discussion or directly start discussions in
smaller groups. In any case, coffee, soft drinks and light snacks will
be available to create a relaxed but stimulating environment.
