[R] Revolutions Blog: July Roundup

[David Smith]

I write 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.

In case you missed them, here are some articles related to R from the
month of July:

http://bit.ly/cXFZrI reviewed the updates to Hadley Wickham's ggplot2
and plyr packages.

http://bit.ly/940vKB linked to an article about R co-creator Ross
Ihaka in New Zealand's Sunday Star Times.

http://bit.ly/au2Mtt noted that the presentations from the R/Finance
2010 conference are available for download.

http://bit.ly/cts8L4 reviewed the StatJump website, which uses R
graphics to visualize US Census results.

http://bit.ly/aMtFFs linked to R-based visualizations of the World
Cup, and showed how to download the data from a Google Spreadsheet
into R.

http://bit.ly/cXuIPR previewed talks from Revolution team members at
useR! 2010. (Slides now available at
http://user2010.org/presentations.html.)

http://bit.ly/ds2kdi reviewed an article from The Data Warehousing
Institute (TDWI) where R was called a "Rock Star".

http://bit.ly/aDP8wf called for beta testers of Revolution's
RevoScaleR package for big data statistics.

http://bit.ly/bequuy related how Drew Conway got engaged, and used R
to analyze the impact on his fiancée's Facebook wall.

http://bit.ly/cdZUSj announced www.inside-r.org, a new community site
for R sponsored by Revolution Analytics.

http://bit.ly/dfor4g reviewed the talks on Day 1 of the useR! 2010
conference. I also posted some photos from the conference here:
http://bit.ly/9mpWYW .

http://bit.ly/cyDlDm linked to an extensive list of plaudits for R
compiled by Paul Murrell.

Revolution CEO Norman Nie continues his media tour, talking about R
and Revolution in a radio interview (http://bit.ly/b86nDR) and in
print (http://bit.ly/cQPRnP).

http://bit.ly/aVSEh2 provides an analysis of the growth in attention
about R, from analyst Steve Miller.

http://bit.ly/90lMK9 reviews a new, free book on probability and
statistics with R (included with the IPSUR package).

http://bit.ly/9Ni1ZO links to an analysis of the Wikileaks Afghanistan
data done with R.

There are new R user groups in Slovenia (http://bit.ly/8YnoUj) and
Melbourne (http://bit.ly/cI19w8).

Other non-R-related stories in the past month included: using
statistics to detect fraud in polling data (http://bit.ly/dDfWPt), an
IEEE contest to predict traffic (http://bit.ly/aC9bxZ), a new website
for questions about Statistics (http://bit.ly/97quRx), and (on a
lighter note), double rainbows (http://bit.ly/cJg4OD).

The R Community Calendar has also been updated 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/.
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articles on a monthly basis.

As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions
to me at david at revolutionanalytics.com . Don't forget you can also
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following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid).

Cheers,
# David

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