R Day report

The ‘R Day report’ article from the 2018-1 issue.

Fernando P. Mayer (

Laboratório de Estatística e Geoinformação - LEG/DEST/UFPR

) , Walmes M. Zeviani (

Laboratório de Estatística e Geoinformação - LEG/DEST/UFPR

) , Wagner H. Bonat (

Laboratório de Estatística e Geoinformação - LEG/DEST/UFPR

) , Elias T. Krainski (

Laboratório de Estatística e Geoinformação - LEG/DEST/UFPR

) , Paulo J. Ribeiro Jr (

Laboratório de Estatística e Geoinformação - LEG/DEST/UFPR

)
2018-06-01

1 About

R Day1 - National Meeting of R Users, took place on May, 22, 2018 at Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil. It was the first event in Brazil endorsed by The R Foundation.

2 The event

R Day was planned as a satellite event of the 63rd RBRAS Annual Meeting2 of the Brazilian Region of The International Biometric Society3. Paraná Federal University (UFPR) was selected on 2016 to host the meeting.

The R Day was considered as a UFPR extension event, and as such it was non-profitable and with no registration fees. There were 295 subscribed participants. Figure 1 shows how they split between students, professional and others.

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Figure 1: Number of subscribers by category.

Figure 2 shows the spread of the participants’ home locations, for 88 of those who have opted for make geocoding information available on the subscription form. There was quite a spread, with all of the five country regions represented, an encouraging achievement considering the continental distances within the country. The fact the event was an RBRAS satellite helped to gather a wider audience.