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.
And in case you missed them, here are some articles related to R from the month of February: A tutorial on presenting interactive versions of R maps in PowerBI: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/r-maps-in-powerbi.html An animation of Japan's population pyramid through 2050 based on US Census Bureau demographic projections: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/japans-ageing-population-animated-with-r.html Interactive visualizations of multivariate data in R with the threejs package: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/multivariate_data_with_r.html New Zealand's tourism ministry uses R and Shiny to create a public dashboard exploring the economic impact of tourism: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/explore-new-zealands-tourist-industry-with-r-and-shiny.html Microsoft uses R to forecast usage of the Xbox One gaming system: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/xbox_usage_trends_r.html R scores highly in the latest Tiobe and Redmonk language rankings: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/latest-redmonk-and-tiobe-language-rankings-for-r.html A minor update to Microsoft R Open 3.2.3: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/microsoft-r-open-323-update.html Applications from the Bay Area R User Group: simulating poker tournaments, recommending movies, predicting the Oscars, and analyzing electronic medical records: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/bay-area-user-group-lightning-talks.html Lionel Henry's proposals to improve the syntax of R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/new-syntax-proposed-for-r-language.html Repositories of talks given to various R user groups: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/more_rug_sites.html RStudio now supports user-created add-ins: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/you-can-now-extend-rstudio-with-add-ins.html Replay of the webinar presented by Derek Norton on Microsoft R Server: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/using-microsoft-r-server-to-address-scalability-issues-in-r.html Accessing data in SQL Server on Azure with R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/ms_sql_azure.html A look at the R community in Poland: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/r-user-groups-in-poland.html A tutorial on credit card fraud detection using R and SQL Server: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/data-science-deep-dive-with-revoscaler.html A replay (with slides) of a recent webinar on Microsoft R Open: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/introducing-microsoft-r-open-replay-and-slides.html How to use Microsoft R Open with RStudio: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/using-mro-with-rstudio.html The world's longest commercial flights, mapped with R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/mapping-the-worlds-longest-plane-fights.html How to use PostgresSQL with R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/postgressql_r.html Replay of a presentation by Max Kuhn on predictive modeling with R and the caret package: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/applied-predictive-modeling.html General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: performing accents (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/because-its-friday-accents.html), realizing a video game world (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/because-its-friday-networking-in-destiny.html), combining dance and CGI (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/using-microsoft-r-server-to-address-scalability-issues-in-r.html), and a mysterious rotating illusion (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/because-its-friday-the-mysterious-rotating-woman.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). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <david...@microsoft.com> R Community Lead, Microsoft Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
