[R] Revolutions blog: October roundup

[David M Smith]

I write about R every weekday at the Revolutions blog:
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/16wIdo offered a sneak peek of the debugger we've since
released for subscribers of REvolution R Enterprise on Windows:
http://bit.ly/1uxU3w .

http://bit.ly/sZLaR brought news of big changes for us here at
REvolution Computing, with new funding and a new CEO.

http://bit.ly/3j0cuv showcased Jeroen Oons' web-based interface to the
lme4 package.

http://bit.ly/2cAIzQ linked to some animated data visualizations created with R.

http://bit.ly/12JNM1 celebrated the 50,000th update to the R source
code, and linked to Romain François' analysis of the rate of code
changes over time.

http://bit.ly/zaP0l brought news of new R user groups in Germany,
Spain, and Washington, DC.

http://bit.ly/uIRHM linked to some pointers on getting started with
Machine Learning in R.

http://bit.ly/HE5Zj lists seven tips for surviving R, based on John
Mount's talk at the Bay Area UseR Group.

http://bit.ly/3Ycpaj announced the inclusion of REvolution R in the
recent Ubuntu Linux update.

http://bit.ly/1POcTb provides a source of up-to-date political and
administrative boundaries for geographic maps in R.

http://bit.ly/WsDbt shows how to export several data frames from R to
a multi-sheet Excel workbook.

http://bit.ly/4pLnIV linked to some tips on using Hadley Wickham's
handy ply package.

http://bit.ly/1kU871 reminds that the UseR! conference will be in
Maryland USA next year, and you can register and submit abstracts now.

Other non-R-specific stories in the last month covered polling fraud
(http://bit.ly/iU7RO), how Shazam can identify a song from a noisy
10-second clip (http://bit.ly/26TPwd) and (on the lighter side) Carl
Sagan singing (http://bit.ly/L8sTu), data mining disasters
(http://bit.ly/oaCVu), truthful lottery tickets
(http://bit.ly/3bLG9a), and a music video featuring trigonometry
(http://bit.ly/2wH6q4).

(I've provided short URLs above because many mailers break the long
direct URLs.)

The R Community Calendar has also been updated at:
http://blog.revolution-computing.com/calendar.html

As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions
to me at david at revolution-computing.com . Don't forget you can also
follow the blog using an RSS reader like Google Reader, or by
following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid).

Cheers to all,
# David Smith

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