[R] Revolutions Blog: December 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 December:

A brief summary of the changes in R 2.14.1: http://bit.ly/vZo2He

A review of the new book 'R in Action' by Robert Kabacoff: http://bit.ly/yz5HXc

A review of the December 2011 issue of the R Journal: http://bit.ly/y1WxeS

The call for papers for the R/Finance conference in Chicago is open;
the submission deadline is January 31: http://bit.ly/A7OdXO

Joseph Rickert reviews presentations on data mining with R from the
December Bay Area R User Group meeting: http://bit.ly/zH4aSg

An EMC survey of data scientists and business intelligence
professionals ranks usage of R for data analysis: http://bit.ly/zzWxVY

Business Agility magazine talks to Revolution Analytics CEO Norman
Nie: http://bit.ly/x4uY6n

The Washington Post publishes a list of publicly-accessible databases
(a great source of data for use with R): http://bit.ly/wczT8I

The open-source RHadoop project from Revolution Analytics updates the
rmr package integrating R and Hadoop: http://bit.ly/zbTrzv

French R user Baptiste Coulmont uses R and GEOFLA shapefiles to create
a choropleth of prosperity in France: http://bit.ly/wn5kOF

The CEO of new internet bank Simple shows how to generate the bank's
logo using R: http://bit.ly/wSxN0U

An article in Forbes magazine about Big Data mentions R and Revolution
Analytics: http://bit.ly/AAJtsQ

There's a new high-availability CRAN mirror,
cran.revolutionanalytics.com: http://bit.ly/xXqHgx

The 'Vote Compass' organization in Canada uses R to visualize the
results of political polls: http://bit.ly/x6uoor

The judges of the Applications of R in Business contest are announced,
and offer their thoughts about the competition: http://bit.ly/wdE2lr .
(The competition winners will be announced later this month.)

I was interviewed by 'IT Business Edge' and 'Inside Big Data' about
Revolution R Enterprise 5.0: http://bit.ly/xTJw3g

Other non-R-related stories in the past month included: CGI used in
surprising shows (http://bit.ly/z4cPpO), Ryan Gosling and
biostatistics (http://bit.ly/yIhu1Q), the strange behavior of gallium
(http://bit.ly/xMxWrI) and robot spiders (http://bit.ly/w8rUEC),

Meeting times for local R user groups (http://bit.ly/eC5YQe) 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/.
Join the Revolution mailing list at
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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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VP of Marketing, Revolution Analytics  http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com
Tel: +1 (650) 646-9523 (Palo Alto, CA, USA)