Since 2008, Microsoft (formerly 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.
Some recent news: Revolution R is now Microsoft R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/microsoft-r-open.html And in case you missed them, here are some articles related to R from the month of December: A look back at accomplishments for the R Project and community in 2015: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/rs-year-in-review.html Segmented regression with the "segmented" package, applied to long-distance running records: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/using-segmented-regression-to-analyse-world-record-running-times.html Creating multi-tab reports in R with knitr and jQuery UI: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/reports-r-jquery.html New version 2.0 update to ggplot2 adds extensibility and many improvements: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/gggplot-version-2-new-features.html A circle diagram of translations of "Merry Christmas": http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/all-i-want-for-christmas.html Upcoming R events and conferences, and sponsorship for R user groups: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/looking-forward-to-2016.html How to embed images in R help pages: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/embedding-images-in-r-package-help-pages.html An Azure ML Studio fraud detection template relies heavily on R components: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/fraud-detection-with-r-and-azure.html R is the fastest-growing language on Stackoverflow, as shown in a subway-style rank chart from ggplot2: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/r-is-the-fastest-growing-language-on-stackoverflow.html Buzzfeed is using R for some (serious!) data journalism: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/buzzfeed-uses-r-for-data-journalism.html A tutorial on using SQL Server R Services to analyze a billion taxi rides: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/sql-rre-tutorial.html Some suggestions on how to cryptographically store secrets in R code: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/securely-storing-your-secrets-in-r-code.html Some tips and trade-offs to consider when reading large data files with the RevoScaleR package: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/trade-offs-to-consider-when-reading-a-large-dataset-into-r-using-the-revoscaler-package.html A brief summary of improvements in R 3.2.3: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/r-323-released.html Implementing Wald's sequential analysis test in R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/walds-graphical-sequential-inspection-procedure.html Using the gtrendsR package to download and chart Google Trends data: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/download-and-plot-google-trends-data-with-r.html Distributed data structures in R with the ddR package: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/fun-with-ddr-using-distributed-data-structures-in-r.html Using the leaflet package to create an interactive, photo-annotated map of GPS data from a hike: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/document-hikes-with-interactive-leaftlets-and-r.html Microsoft Azure's Data Science Virtual Machine includes R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/microsoft-data-science.html Feature selection when modeling wide data sets with genetic algorithms using the caret package: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/caret-genetic.html Tips on setting up a virtual machine with RStudio in Azure: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/setting-up-an-azure-resource-manager-virtual-machine-with-rstudio.html Querying recursive CTEs (common table expressions) in a database with the sqldf package: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/exploring-recursive-ctes-with-sqldf.html General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: your Macbook charger has more CPU than the original Macintosh (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/because-its-friday-smart-charger.html), how 5 particles can jam a hopper (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/because-its-friday-hopper-jams.html), and a film based on the NASA photo archive (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/apollo-film.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 receive daily blog posts via email using services like blogtrottr.com. As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at david...@microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). 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