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 January: Animated visualizations and analysis of data from NYC's municipal bike program, created with R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/new-yorkers-municipal-bikes-and-the-weather.html Many local R user groups are sharing materials from meetups using Github: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/r-user-groups-on-github.html A detailed R tutorial on analyzing your Twitter archive and performing sentiment analysis: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/twitter-sentiment.html How to combine R and Python in Jupyter notebooks: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/pipelining-r-python.html Many datasets are available for analysis in R using Kaggle's online platform, including the American Community Survey: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/american-community-survey-analyzed-with-r.html Getting started with Markov Chains in R http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/getting-started-with-markov-chains.html and even more R packages for Markov Chain analysis: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/markov-chains-part-2.html Replays are available for recent webinars on Microsoft R Open and Microsoft R Server: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/microsoft-r-webinars.html Microsoft R Open 3.2.3 (formerly Revolution R Open), and new CRAN Time Machine now available at MRAN: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/microsoft-r-open-323-now-available.html Overview of parallel computing in R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/a-gentle-introduction-to-parallel-computing-in-r.html R packages providing sources of data: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/new-data-sources-for-r.html Visual Studio will soon support the R language: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/new-data-sources-for-r.html Microsoft R Server available free to students and developers: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/r-dreamspark.html Revolution R is now Microsoft R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/microsoft-r-open.html A new ggplot2 extension avoids overlapping text labels: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/avoid-overlapping-labels-in-ggplot2-charts.html R played a big part in a scientific breakthrough regarding reproducibility of results: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/rs-role-in-science-breakthrough-reproducibility-of-psychology-studies.html An online data science course using Microsoft Azure and R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/video-course-data-science-with-microsoft-azure-and-r.html A review of the 7th R user conference in Spain: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/7th-meeting-of-spanish-r-users-5-6-november-2015-salamanca-spain.html Using network analysis in R to explore connections in the movie "Love Actually" http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/analyzing-movie-connections-with-r.html The most popular posts on the Revolutions blog in 2015: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/top-posts-of-2015.html General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: pinball skills (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/because-its-friday-flipper-tricks.html), when walking up the escalator is inefficient (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/because-its-friday-stand-on-the-left-and-on-the-right.html), Pokemon or Big Data (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/because-its-friday-pokemon-or-big-data-tool.html), and mimicking famous guitar styles (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/get-lucky-guitar.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.
