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Hi @dfalster @richfitz,

I think this is all a fantastic idea, but I am just wondering if we should switch to discussing meeting logistics. Are we thinking of a one-off full day meeting? Or something that could be on-going as a monthly thing with two or three talks per meeting?

I'm worried that 15 or so different "advanced" topics might be more that my poor brain can absorb in one day. The other issue is if we pick any particular day, only a subset of people will be able to come anyway and we might miss out on some cool stuff.

What do you think?

Hi @richfitz @dbarneche @enterthesloth @koadman @KerensaMcElroy @roblanf @wcornwell @kunstler @RemkoDuursma @timchurches @cerebis @ekfchan,

I am exploring the idea of a symposium or workshop for more experienced users of R in Sydney area. Here is an initial list of possible topics. Any further topics that might be of interest? reply to this email.

• package creation
• scraping webpages
• linking to C++ code with Rcpp
• handling big data
• functional programming
• advanced plyr, dplyr
• testing and continuous integration
• using make to automate analysis workflows
• analysing sequence data
• sql databases
• sanitisting and testing data
• deploying jobs on clusters, high-performance computers

Another idea was to try and get Hadley Wickham out to Sydney for an intensive.