I write about R every weekday at http://blog.revolution-computing.com . In case you missed them, here are some articles from last month of particular interest to R users.
http://bit.ly/tygLz announced the release of the "foreach" and "iterators" packages on CRAN, for simple scalable parallel programming in R. http://bit.ly/FDS67 linked to Thomas Levin's Joy-Division-esque band T-shirt made with R http://bit.ly/16zTph discussed R's involvement in the Netflix Prize http://bit.ly/dTOkF revealed that the New York Times uses R to create graphics, including an interactive chart of Michael Jackson's musical career http://bit.ly/PZRA2 described how to run batch jobs using R CMD BATCH http://bit.ly/hE56B reviewed "Data Mashups in R", an extended example of corralling foreclosure data from various sources http://bit.ly/h9yfB announced a new "statistical learning web service" implemented with R http://bit.ly/Ncmwe was one of a series of posts looking at fraud in the Iranian election (including a now-famous analysis done in R) http://bit.ly/wTYAe linked to a widely-reproduced R graph on gay marriage support http://bit.ly/11AV4k linked to free source code of many R graphs on Wikimedia Commons http://bit.ly/npwoA demonstrated animation of R graphics using Flash http://bit.ly/VYvnD linked to a comparison of various statistical analyses done in R, SAS and SPSS http://bit.ly/gxA3g showed how Twitter users can "tweet" using R code http://bit.ly/31AOs linked to an analysis of basketball plays done in R http://bit.ly/18quFi linked to a video walkthrough and code for bagged decision trees in R http://bit.ly/BIdNp gave some tips, tricks and pitfalls on working with dates and time zones in R http://bit.ly/TwlvR brought the news that R was used in a winning entry of KDD 2009 (I've provided short URLs above because many mailers break the long direct URLs.) Other non-R-specific stories in June covered Simpson's Paradox in polling data, Google Squared, real random numbers, the chances of a meteor bringing down an aircraft, amusing article titles from PubMed, and open-source user interfaces. June was a record-breaking traffic month for the blog. The "Data Mashups" article and the discussion of the Iranian Election were highly visited. Thanks to everyone who provided comments and tips and please keep them coming to da...@revolution-computing.com . Regards to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith <da...@revolution-computing.com> Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events ______________________________________________ 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.
