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 May: A 3-part tutorial on principal components regression in R: part 1 (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/principal-components-tutorial.html); part 2 (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/principal-components-regression-part-2.html); part 3 (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/principal-components-regression-in-r-part-3.html). Implications of the fact that in R, names have objects (and not vice-versa): http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/an-object-has-no-name.html Highlights of the R/Finance 2016 conference: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/r-finance-2016.html A template for predicting maintenance events for aircraft engines, using R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/predictive-maintenance-r-code.html The "feather" package for fast data exchange between Python and R, now on CRAN: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/feather-package.html Microsoft R Open 3.2.5 now available: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/microsoft-r-open-325-now-available.html There are now R user groups in 223 cities and 55 countries: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/user-groups-and-r-awareness.html A preview of Spark 2.0 and the updated SparkR package: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/spark-20-to-include-more-r-models.html All the documentation for Microsoft R Server is now available to everyone, online: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/microsoft-r-server-documentation.html The most popular (and controversial) ingredients in pasta carbonara, visualized with R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/whats-in-pasta-carbonara.html Joseph Rickert's guidelines for identifying the best R packages: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/good-r-packages.html "Effective Graphs with Microsoft R Open", a free e-book, is available for download: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/e-book-effective-graphs.html Estimating demand for bike rentals in Washington, DC with R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/bike-rental-demand.html R Tools for Visual Studio 0.3 now available: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/r-tools-for-visual-studio-30-now-available.html A brief summary of the changes and new features in R 3.3.0: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/r-330-now-available.html A tutorial on installing R packages on a firewalled SQL Server instance: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/minicran-sql-server.html How to train gradient-boosted trees with Microsoft R Server: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/build-a-gradient-boosted-trees-model-with-mrs.html Reproducing results in Efron's 1987 paper "Logistic Regression, Survival Analysis, and the Kaplan-Meier Curve" using R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/reading-efron-with-r-1.html General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: the history of Japan (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/history-of-japan.html), a magnet machine (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/magnet-machine.html), an audio-visual history of the Billboard Top 5 (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/because-its-friday-the-time-travelling-jukebox.html), and roads to Romes (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/because-its-friday-the-roads-to-rome.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.
