I write about R every weekday at the Revolutions blog:
blog.revolutionanalytics.com
and every month (usually) I post a summary of articles from the
previous month of particular interest to readers of r-help. I somehow
missed this past January, though, so here are selected highlights from
January and February:
Abstracts for presentations, posters and lightning talks for useR!
2011 are due by April 1: bit.ly/g7iwo7
Revolution Analytics is now offering annual sponsorship grants for
local R user groups worldwide: bit.ly/gQQC49
Several finalists in of the Mozilla Open Data Competition used R to
visualize behaviours of Firefox users: bit.ly/h8KRkH
A profile of prolific R contributor, Dirk Eddelbuettel:
bit.ly/eHDg9t . (Suggest other R contributors to profile here:
bit.ly/edec9G )
R has overtaken SAS and Matlab in programming language popularity,
according to the Tiobe Index: bit.ly/fR6gEF
Revolution R Enterprise 4.2 is now available to subscribers, and for
free download to academics: bit.ly/hUKYsJ
Dating site OkCupid describes how data analysis in R contributes to
their controversial relationships blog: bit.ly/gEStc5
A summary of the changes in R 2.12.2, which was released on February
25: bit.ly/eMgIYh
Christian Gunning offers some tips on setting up a
parallel-programming cluster for R with OpenSSH and the doSNOW
package: bit.ly/f12b73
Issue 2 of the R Journal has been published, with articles on GPU
processing, text data analysis, solving differential equations, and
more: bit.ly/dXJNUh
The new googleVis package makes it easy to create GapMinder-style
animated charts from data in R: bit.ly/grpwMr
Noting the one-year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, Peter Aldhous
used R to create an animation of all earthquakes over the past year
from USGS data: bit.ly/fgyjmu
A new tutorial series, sab-R-metrics, teaches R through the analysis
of baseball statistics: bit.ly/eDv6B8
CRANberriesFeed is a new Twitter feed announcing new packages for R:
bit.ly/gAWvKa
The replay and slides are now available for the webinar "Portfolio
design, optimization and stability analysis" presented by Diethelm
W?rtz of the Rmetrics Association: bit.ly/dG4fI0
A question on StackOverflow provides some great suggestions for
managing memory usage in an R session: bit.ly/glgGSq
doSMP, an open-source package from Revolution Analytics to support
parallel processing in R on Windows, is now available on CRAN:
bit.ly/e0DzkZ
Other non-R-related stories in the past 2 months included a cartoon
about factor analysis (bit.ly/hJ4J6X), computers impersonating
humans on Jeopardy and elsewhere (bit.ly/fnpvdZ), and how
averages of faces don't regress to the mean (bit.ly/hhoWAt),
and the abuse of circles in data visualization (bit.ly/dW8WD0).
There are new R user groups in: Zurich, Geneva and Amsterdam
(bit.ly/hLRPVh Qu?bec, Vancouver, Bangalore, and Dallas
(bit.ly/fJP2tc Toronto (bit.ly/gNMjGc Kansas City
(bit.ly/dMKeEc and Minneapolis/St. Paul (bit.ly/hgXykM).
The R Community Calendar (bit.ly/bb3naW) has also been updated.
If you're looking for more articles about R, you can find summaries
from previous months at blog.revolutionanalytics.com/roundups.
Join the Revolution mailing list at
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).
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David M Smith <david at revolutionanalytics.com>
VP of Marketing, Revolution Analytics? blog.revolutionanalytics.com
Tel: +1 (650) 646-9523 (Palo Alto, CA, USA)
