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/2HPlOe announced a directory of R user groups available on the Revolutions blog. http://bit.ly/12u7e7 noted that the Society of Actuaries promotes R with a regular column. http://bit.ly/Kh8eL noted that the New York Times mentioned R in the context of SPSS's sale to IBM (as did several other media outlets). http://bit.ly/4yJ5Zf offered a review of the BioConductor 2009 conference, and linked to my slides on parallel programming with R. http://bit.ly/kLSyJ linked to the "Rosetta Code" site, where you can see standard computing problems solved in many languages, including R. http://bit.ly/YmG28 linked to John D Cook's tip-sheet for programmers of other languages learning R. http://bit.ly/fRVgM contended that working with interesting data -- like the top 100 song list -- is a good way to learn R. http://bit.ly/12yRwd noted that R had a significant presence at the open-source conference OSCON this year, and linked to slides of R presentations. http://bit.ly/PhtiK linked to an example of web-scraping using R and Rcurl. http://bit.ly/N0mbO provides some examples of using iterators in R. http://bit.ly/B4vR noted that Forbes has identified R as an open-source venture "worth watching". http://bit.ly/ym6QN links to an O'Reilly interview with REvolution's Danese Cooper, talking about Open Government and R. http://bit.ly/1abbqc showed how one website is using R to improve performance through analysis of DNS lookup times. http://bit.ly/GkKw4 offered a review of the UseR! 2009 conference overall, and http://bit.ly/BcZCW discussed some of the presentations. http://bit.ly/n788Q prompted a discussion about solving the Knapsack Problem in R. http://bit.ly/yuryk pointed to the Learning R blog, where a comparison of ggplo2 and lattice graphics is ongoing. http://bit.ly/JfZAk noted that presentations from the Rmetrics financial conference are available for download. http://bit.ly/QxXIB noted another instance of R being used at Google (for boxplots). (I've provided short URLs above because many mailers break the long direct URLs.) Other non-R-specific stories in July covered power-law distributions, temporal illusions, game theory, commercial open-source, the Netflix prize, and ferrofluid. The R Community Calendar has also been updated at: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/calendar.html It's been a bit of a quiet month on the blog thanks to the conference travel time-crunch, but things should be back to normal (or at least skew-Normal) now. Thanks to everyone who provided comments and tips and please keep them coming to david at revolution-computing.com . (If you sent me a suggestion and haven't had a response yet, I'm *almost* through my email backlog - apologies for the delay.) Regards to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith <david at revolution-computing.com> Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events