Autarchy of the Private Cave

• R time series tutorial (2010, a website of the “Time Series Analysis and Its Applications: With R Examples” book)
• Statistics with R (2007)
• R for programmers PDF (2008, 104 pages, linked to from here)
• Brief R tutorial (2004)
• Statistical computing with R: a tutorial (2004)
• An introduction to R (from the official r-project website, should be always up-to-date)
• R tutorial (date unknown, definitely newer than 2005)

It has been quite a time since my last serious and long post. On the one hand, summer is vacations time – so I’ve been to one in Turkey; on the other hand – the long-awaited ICSB-2008 conference finally took place in Gothenburg, Sweden, on August 23-27 (or 22-28, counting in tutorials and workshops).

Update: it appears that conference domain name http://www.icsb-2008.org/ was not maintained after the conference, so I had to remove all the links to that website (which now appears to be owned by someone not related to ICSB). However, there seems to be a mirror of ICSB-2008 at http://www.gmm.gu.se/groups/icsb08test/.

Synopsis: in this post I present a personal-perspective report on the 9th ICSB (with a condensed ICSB-2008 photo-report in my gallery).

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Andy Dustman (used to blog at dustman.net) gave a presentation on Python and MySQL at the MySQL Users Conference 2005, Santa Clara, CA. The presentation is an excellent collection of examples for those who use the MySQLdb Python module.
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