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 November: R 2.14 now includes SVG support for Windows: http://bit.ly/vKQ0UC The submissions for the Applications of R in Business contest are available for viewing online: http://bit.ly/urjg8F A tutorial on using the Rdatamarket package to import public datasets into R: http://bit.ly/t7vUok Free books on R for multivariate analysis, biomedical statistics, and time series available for download: http://bit.ly/sKxZSV Revolution R Enterprise 5.0 has been released: http://bit.ly/vrn6wU . Download the slides and replay for the webinar here: http://bit.ly/s0VtVQ . It's available for free download to members of the academic community: http://bit.ly/uv0fPf . There's a review of the new release here: http://bit.ly/rMe54q Hadley Wickham presents the "R Development Master Class" in San Francisco: http://bit.ly/eC5YQe Slides and a video interview from a talk on the RHadoop project given at Hadoop World 2011: http://bit.ly/rGdYeG Using calendar heat maps in R to visualize training for a marathon: http://bit.ly/rvy1ix Modeling 70Gb of birth records data using the RevoScaleR package: http://bit.ly/tLwvGU Why we do need to deal with big data in R: http://bit.ly/rFmW9N The University of Washington is offering a web-based course on financial modeling with R: http://bit.ly/sLXYCY R performance tip: pre-allocate a vector, rather than extending it in a loop: http://bit.ly/ueKsMc A review of the new book "The Art of R Programming" by Norman Matloff: http://bit.ly/vTPZ8S R remains the preferred tool of participants in the Kaggle predictive modeling competitions: http://bit.ly/uN9DkL Other non-R-related stories in the past month included: data mining wine (http://bit.ly/ueyIF0 ), creating a "holodeck" with Kinect sensors (http://bit.ly/vv5pAV ), visualizing a year of the sky (http://bit.ly/rLv0zB ) and a radio series on Big Data (http://bit.ly/vSeCWm ). 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/. 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)