Papers and Talks

Customizing Sweave to Produce Better Looking LaTeX Output.
Handout for Statistics 782 Course (2010 Version).

Back to the Future: Lisp as a Base for a Statistical Computing System.
With Duncan Temple Lang.
Invited Paper, Compstat 2008.
August 25, 2008, Porto, Portugal.
(Lecture Slides)

Colour for Presentation Graphics.
Plenary Lecture, DSC 2003.
March 20, 2003, Vienna, Austria.
(Lecture Slides)

R: Past and Future History.
Proceedings of the 30th Symposium on the Interface.
S. Weisberg Ed., pp. 392-396.
The Interface Foundation of North America. 1998.

R: A Language for Data Analysis and Graphics.
With Robert Gentleman
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics,
5:3, pp. 299-314. 1996.

Writing Efficient Programs in R (and Beyond) with handouts.
Invited Talk, IBS Australasian Region Conference
December 30, 2009, Taupo.

The R Project: A Brief History and Thoughts About the Future
with handouts.
Massey University Statistics Day
October 23, 2009, Massey University, Palmerston North.

The R Project with handouts.
Auckland Analytics Forum
June 10, 2009, Deloittes, Auckland.

R: Past and Future History with handouts.
Kingitanga Day, University of Waikato.
April 21, 2009, Hamilton.

R: Past and Future History with handouts.
New Zealand Qualifications Authority.
April 3, 2009, Wellington.

R: Past and Future History with handouts.
Wellington Statistics Group.
April 2, 2009, Wellington.

Developing a "Next Generation Statistical Computing Environment".
Ross Ihaka and Duncan Temple Lang.
Invited talk, 7th World Congress in Probability and Statistics
July 14, 2008, Singapore.