Since 2008, Revolution Analytics staff and guests have written 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 
April:

Joseph Rickert reviews the inaugural New York City R User Conference, featuring 
Andrew Gelman: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/the-ny-r-conference.html

Engineer Vineet Abraham compares performance benchmarks for R and Revolution R 
Open on OS X and Ubuntu: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/benchmarks-of-rro-on-osx-and-ubuntu.html

R was featured in the keynotes for the BUILD developer's conference: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/see-r-in-action-at-the-build-conference.html

Mark Malter created a Shiny application to explore baseball statistics: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/situational-baseball-analyzing-runs-potential-statistics.html

A curated list of the best packages, add-ons and resources for R according to 
Qin Wenfeng: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/awesome-r-a-curated-list-of-the-best-add-ons-for-r.html

An analysis of paintings from British museums reveals an increasing use of the 
colour blue over the last two centuries: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/paintings-getting-blue.html

Journalists are increasingly referencing source research via DOIs, and packages 
from rOpenSci allow R users to access that research programmatically: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/the-new-science-journalism-and-open-science.html

Microsoft is hiring programmers to work on R-related projects: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/microsoft-hiring-engineers-for-r-projects.html

Some examples of visualizing the results of hierarchical clustering with a heat 
map: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/r-for-more-powerful-clustering.html

The Financial Times published an interactive data visualization based on R to 
explore European unemployment statistics: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/financial-times-tracks-unemployment-with-r.html

Announcing R 3.2.0: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/r-320-released.html

Recent R user group meetings have covered Shiny, SparkR, htmlwidgets, and 
dynamic pricing models: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/r-user-group-meetings-this-week-in-the-bay-area-and-around-the-world.html

A story about teaching R to archaeologists in Myanmar, and coping with package 
installation in a low-bandwidth environment with the miniCRAN package: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/r-in-myanmar.html

RPowerLabs allows electrical engineers to experiment on virtual power 
distribution systems: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/rpowerlabs-electric-power-system-virtual-laboratories-online.html

Two high-performance packages from RStudio for reading data into R: readr (for 
text data) and readxl (for Excel data): 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/new-packages-for-reading-data-into-r-fast.html

A list of the top 25 R user groups in the world by membership: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/where-are-the-r-users.html

A guide to association rules and market basket analysis in R: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/association-rules-and-market-basket-analysis-with-r.html

The choroplethrZip package allows R users to create data maps from US zip 
codes: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/exploring-san-francisco-with-choropleth.html

Revolution Analytics is now a subsidiary of Microsoft: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/revolution-analytics-microsoft.html

DeployR 7.4, a web-services framework for integrating R code to other 
applications, is now available for download: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/deployr-74-released.html

Coarse-grained parallel computing with R on servers and Hadoop with rxExec in 
Revolution R Enterprise: 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/coarse-grain-parallelism-with-foreach-and-rxexec.html

Revolution R Open 8.0.2 was released (and 8.0.3 is now available, too): 
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/a-minor-update-revolution-r-open-802.html

General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: a video 
travelling at the speed of light 
(http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/because-its-friday-slow-light.html),
 a snowy music video 
(http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/because-its-friday-boy-and-bear-in-the-snow.html),
 and visualizing the baseline in a Marvin Gaye classic 
(http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/04/because-its-friday-all-about-that-bassline.html).

Meeting times for local R user groups 
(http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/local-r-groups.html) can be found on the 
updated R Community Calendar 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/. You can 
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monthly basis.

As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at 
da...@revolutionanalytics.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid).

Cheers,
# David

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Principal Program Manager, Microsoft  
Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA)
Twitter: @revodavid
Blog:  http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com

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