I write about R every weekday at the Revolutions blog: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com and every month I post a summary of articles from the previous month of particular interest to readers of r-help.
In case you missed them, here are some articles related to R from the month of November: Dirk Eddelbuettel and Romain Francois went to Google to talk about integrating R (using Rcpp, for example), and we gave a review of the video presentation: http://bit.ly/ev1WxP R co-creator Ross Ihaka wins a Lifetime Achievement Award in Open Source: http://bit.ly/9PdD5C Revolution has job openings for R programmers: http://bit.ly/hgtkSK We're looking for suggestions about useful R functions that more people should know about: http://bit.ly/i9w0FP Brock Tibert wrote some R code to scrape a website of election results and chart the returns in real time: http://bit.ly/hZPMbc We published the final installment of the "R is Hot" article series: http://bit.ly/hFKsAm We launched the free "Pretty R" tool for publishing highlighted R code to the Web: http://bit.ly/bra4ap Slides from Saptarshi Guha on using Hadoop and R to analyze 100Gb of data: http://bit.ly/gYGokk Forbes Magazine names R as a "Name You Need To Know in 2011" in their December issue, based on a lively and informative online comment thread: http://bit.ly/gVwzb8 In honor of 11/11, Drew Conway created a visualization in R on veteran homelessness in the US: http://bit.ly/gkpS6J Some good advice on thinking about writing loops in R by Yihiu Xie: http://bit.ly/gr4OlV Revolution's Joe Rickert reviews the R talks at the ACM Data Mining Camp: http://bit.ly/ebo9Pk The competition to create a recommendation engine for R packages continues, with new data and new prizes: http://bit.ly/ezF5WB There's a new package to access the InfoChimps API from R, for geolocation, census demographic data, and more: http://bit.ly/gTWiAA A tutorial from FlowingData on making bubble charts with R: http://bit.ly/hNL41L An analysis of the users of the prediction competition site Kaggle revealed that R was the preferred software of competitors: http://bit.ly/elsyLb John Chambers gave a presentation on "R and Multilingualism", with examples of the new Reference Classes feature of R 2.12: http://bit.ly/gB3bCZ News about a forthcoming integration between Revolution R and Hadoop: http://bit.ly/gF7LEn Other non-R-related stories in the past month included another lottery coincidence (http://bit.ly/hN1qHU), epidemiology of unusual diseases from 1632 (http://bit.ly/iceodU), a discussion on Statistics moderated by the Dataists on Reddit (http://bit.ly/h5r25S), a visualization of asteroid discoveries (http://bit.ly/enidWV), the the emerging discipline of "digital humanities" (http://bit.ly/eMbzCw), and the science of airport security (http://bit.ly/eiMyIY). On a lighter note, we had: a T-shirt for Stats geeks (http://bit.ly/aLOCyZ). There are new R user groups in Houston (http://bit.ly/c0XFGp) and Cincinnati/Dayton (http://bit.ly/97FpZx). The R Community Calendar has also been updated at: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/calendar.html If you're looking for more articles about R, you can find summaries from previous months at http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/roundups/. Join the Revolution mailing list at http://revolutionanalytics.com/newsletter to be alerted to new articles on a monthly basis. As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at da...@revolutionanalytics.com. Don't forget you can also follow the blog using an RSS reader like Google Reader, or by following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <da...@revolutionanalytics.com> VP of Marketing, Revolution Analytics http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com Tel: +1 (650) 646-9523 (Palo Alto, CA, USA) ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
