Hadley Wickham presents at the useR! 2013 conference, July 10 2013 Today marked the first day of the 2103 useR! conference, a gathering of more than 350 R users from around the world. The conference has been quite a success so far, kicking off yesterday with a day of tutorials followed by a tapas-fueled welcome party in the center of Albecete. Today has been a full day of invited keynotes, contributed talks and posters on R applications, packages and practices. Here are just a few personal highlights from my notes: Håvard Rue's keynote described the R-INLA package, which can quickly...