Revolution Analytics staff and guests 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 June: The useR! 2014 conference in Los Angeles opened with 16 tutorials: http://bit.ly/1rSoqeh DataInformed published my article on how various companies use R: http://bit.ly/1rSos5L Joe Rickert reviews the new book "Applied Predictive Modeling" by Max Kuhn and Kjell Johnson, which is rich with examples in R and the "caret" package: http://bit.ly/1rSopam Hadley Wickham's new ggvis package features a new syntax to create interactive ggplot2-style graphics: http://bit.ly/1rSoqei Guest poster Wayne Smith reviews the R and Statistics presentations at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair: http://bit.ly/1rSos5K Bank of America uses R to make "mundane tables stand out", as reported in a recent FastCoLabs article: http://bit.ly/1rSoqen DataCamp created an infographic comparing SAS, R and SPSS: http://bit.ly/1rSos5M Prizes on offer for the best R graphic mapping the locations of R user groups: http://bit.ly/1rSoqeo Guy Abel used the circlize package to visualize the players in the World Cup and the location of their home teams: http://bit.ly/1rSos5N How to create a clean financial data set for backtesting using data from Quandl: http://bit.ly/1rSoqep R's popularity continues to surge, with high rankings in the latest KDNuggets poll and Redmonk language rankings: http://bit.ly/1rSos5O Analysis of movie palettes using Python and R reveals that Hollywood cinematographers prefer orange and blue: http://bit.ly/1rSoqeq There are now 141 R user groups worldwide, with recent additions in Chennai (India), Exeter (UK), Miami (FL), Durham (NH), Albany (NY) and Charlotte (NC): http://bit.ly/1rSos5Q Two more companies share how they use R: the ride-sharing company Uber, and CultureAmp (a "people intelligence platform"): http://bit.ly/1rSoquF Tutorial on constructing a term structure of interest rates with R: http://bit.ly/1rSos5R R is featured in a Dataversity article on the relevance of open source analytics for businesses: http://bit.ly/1rSoqer The China R Users Conference attracted more than 1000 attendees: http://bit.ly/1rSoquE A look at the state of the art in Deep Learning research, including the darch and deepnet packages: http://bit.ly/1rSos5U One million students have enrolled in Coursera courses based on R: http://bit.ly/1rSoquG An updated function for reading data into R from Google Spreadsheets that works with Google's current security model: http://bit.ly/1rSos5W General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: the illusory colors of Benham's Top (http://bit.ly/1rSos5V), an airport performance of "All by Myself" (http://bit.ly/1rSoquH), and beer bottle harmonies (http://bit.ly/1rSos5X). Meeting times for local R user groups (http://bit.ly/eC5YQe) can be found on the updated R Community Calendar at: http://bit.ly/bb3naW 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, or join the Revolution Analytics mailing list at http://revolutionanalytics.com/newsletter to be alerted to new articles on a monthly basis. As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at david@revolutionanalytics.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <david@revolutionanalytics.com> Chief Community Officer, Revolution Analytics http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com Tel: +1 (650) 646-9523 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid -- Try Enterprise R Now! <https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile/ref=_ptnr_emailfooter?ie=UTF8&id=3c6536d3-8115-4bc0-a713-be58e257a7be> Get a 14 Day Free Trial of Revolution R Enterprise on AWS Marketplace