The International Workshop New Challenges for Statistical Software – The Use of R in Official Statistics was the second of a series of events dedicated to the use of R Project in Romania and initiated by R-omanian R team. We are pleased to announce that 4th of April is the anniversary or R-omanian R team as an R User Group. One year ago, on 4th of April, was taking place the 1st workshop dedicated to the use of R – Workshop State-of-the-art statistical software commonly used in applied economics.
The event International Workshop New Challenges for Statistical Software – The Use of R in Official Statistics (2014, 27th of March) has been a real success, with participants from academia, official statistics and business, from the following countries: UK, Austria, Netherlands, Hungary, Serbia and of course Romania.
Quality of the works presented, high research activity carried out by the authors, and the results may be as many strong points of reference, to conclude that Romania is on the map of useRs. The presentations from the workshop are available on our website:
http://www.r-project.ro/workshop2014/presentations.html
The workshop was an opportunity to develop new ideas and cooperation in the field of official statistics and academia. The event enabled once again the significant role of National Institute of Statistics in the official statistics.
We were very pleased to have as our guests some pioneers of R from other statistical offices from UK, Austria, Netherlands, Hungary and Serbia.
R-omanian R team together with the organizers want to thank to all the participants for sharing their experience and knowledge.
