[GLLUG] Meeting Minutes, February 17, 2005

[Charles Ulrich]

Greetings fellow LUG members. If you didn't attend the meeting, here's
all the cool stuff that you missed. Sorry these are a little later than 
usual.

Vital Statistics
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The meeting started at 6:00PM and ended at approximately 8:00. Forgot to 
count how many people showed up, but it was a fairly typical showing, 
perhaps a bit above our recent average.

Presentation
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The R Statistical Environment by Scott Harrison

Scott gave an informative overview of R's capabilities and a 
demonstration of its use. R's syntax is simple and it's very easy to 
pick right up. There's a lot of information on R out there, but Scott 
notes that your best bet for answers is usually the mailing list.

The R Project homepage:
http://www.r-project.org/

Open source software for statistical computing:
http://www.omegahat.org/

Comparison of SAS & R/Splus:
http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/03b/2834.html

Thanks again for the excellent presentation, Scott!

General Banter
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Not a whole lot of General Banter this time, almost all discussion was 
focused around the presentation.

There was pizza.

Next Week's Meeting
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February 24, 2005 6:00PM @ Atmosphere Annealing, Inc.

LPI Certification Training

Want to learn about Linux but aren't sure where to start? Or would you 
like to bone up on your Linux mastery so you can ace the Linux 
Professional Institute certification exam? The GLLUG LPI certification 
training sessions may be the answer. While we don't provide the exam 
itself, we do present material straight out of IBM's DeveloperWorks? LPI 
study guides so you will have all of the knowledge you'll need to run 
your own Linux machines in confidence and maybe even pass the LPI exam 
if you choose to take it. We'll have experienced LUG members there to 
teach the material and answer your questions in way too much detail and 
to top it off, these sessions are FREE.

Upcoming Events
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- 03 Mar Presentation: Database Independent Development in C
- 10 Mar Installfest and Beginner's Night
- 17 Mar Presentation: The Novell Linux Desktop and Open Enterprise 
Server by Tim Grocki and Scott Guscar
- 24 Mar LPI Certification Training
- 31 Mar Bits, Bites, and Beer (Location undetermined)

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