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 June: Highlights of presentations from the R/Finance 2011 conference: http://bit.ly/pgOVfm Trulia uses R and statistical models to map local crime: http://bit.ly/quQVbJ Resources for data mining with R: http://bit.ly/pVNP6W K-means clustering on large data sets with the RevoScaleR package: http://bit.ly/ok22ub Revolution Analytics' CTO David Champagne writes on real-time analytics for capital markets with R: http://bit.ly/psl3b6 We profile UCLA's Jeroen Ooms, creator of several interactive web-based applications based on R: http://bit.ly/mPlyLW How to create maps of geographic networks by drawing great circles in R: http://bit.ly/nP7nXh According to CIO Magazine, Data Scientist is among the 6 hottest jobs in IT - and R is a key skill to have: http://bit.ly/qlWRyn A replay and slides are available for download for our webinar, "The Big Analytics Revolution starts with R": http://bit.ly/nFbCeO There are now more than 5000 questions on R at stackoverflow.com: http://bit.ly/mSKm3h Cluster analysis on baseball data shows where the Seattle Mariners right-fielder Ichiro tends to hit: http://bit.ly/mVOhP0 Revolution Analytics' engineer Sherry LaMonica shows how to do principal components analysis on big data sets with the RevoScaleR package: http://bit.ly/ovlKAo R resources for biostatisticians at the Bioinformatics Knowledgeblog: http://bit.ly/oJzKA7 R is amongst the five things that all biologists should know about Statistics, according to the Head of Nucleotide Data at the European Bioinformatics Institute: http://bit.ly/qNCLXy Video recordings of two R-related talks from Hadley Wickham (on interactive graphics, and on engineering data analysis) are available for viewing online: http://bit.ly/neExPe How to speed up R "for" loops by recoding the body in C++ with help from the Rcpp package: http://bit.ly/qGcopC A review of the June edition of the R Journal: http://bit.ly/os5KAe Revolution Analytics demonstrated integrating R with the IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance at the EnZee Universe conference: http://bit.ly/nC3nYi The blog Heuristically Andrew ran some benchmarks of Revolution R for data mining applications: http://bit.ly/pepJ65 A brief overview of the changes in R 2.13.1: http://bit.ly/nhTxac Other non-R-related stories in the past month included: the impact of big analytics on business (http://bit.ly/pYHjsj ); a defense of data mining ethics (http://bit.ly/oKXffN ); a new analyst report on Big Data (http://bit.ly/ojkea7 ); WW2 data visualizations from the Churchill War Rooms (http://bit.ly/ofMl4G ); the Data Without Borders project (http://bit.ly/nk7Mwv ); and a data modeling competition from Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/mPKQF5 ). On a lighter note, we also had posts on: the Lord of the Rings story in map form (http://bit.ly/neKWWg ); and Radiohead music videos (http://bit.ly/mUSy2e ). There is a new R user group (http://bit.ly/eC5YQe ) in Buenos Aires, Argentina (http://bit.ly/mXZFrV). Meeting times for these groups 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/. Join the Revolution 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 at revolutionanalytics.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, # David -- David M Smith <david at revolutionanalytics.com> VP of Marketing, Revolution Analytics? http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com Tel: +1 (650) 646-9523 (Palo Alto, CA, USA)