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 January: Anthony Damico created an amusing and useful flowchart for finding resources for learning R, especially for survey analysis: http://bit.ly/11Cdrd9 All R users: please be counted for the 2013 Rexer Data Miner Survey (R was the #1 software reported in the last survey): http://bit.ly/11CdoOv Relatedly, Joe Rickert will give a free webinar on February 14, "Introduction to R for Data Mining": http://bit.ly/11CdoOu I'll be talking about R in Santa Clara at the O'Rielly Strata Conference: http://bit.ly/11Cdrdb An analysis of American football kicking data with R shows how the probability of making an NFL field goal diminishes with distance: http://bit.ly/11CdoOt A video replay of Jeffrey Breen's webinar, "Using R with Hadoop": http://bit.ly/11Cdrda The votamatic.org website, which correctly predicted the outcome of the US presidential election, was created using R by Drew Linzer: http://bit.ly/11Cdrdc An R chart shows the rise of life expectancy in the US against the falling retirement age: http://bit.ly/11CdoOy Noam Ross shares some useful tips for sharing and collaboration with R: http://bit.ly/11Cdrts A Forbes article argues that Data Science is a management fad; I say it's just the opposite, and the R language is a key reason: http://bit.ly/11Cdrtr Hadley Wickham's guide to functions in R, with background on function elements, scoping rules and argument assignment: http://bit.ly/11Cdp4M My podcast with DataInformed on the history with R and the changing technology landscape for predictive modeling: http://bit.ly/11CdoOz JJ Allaire has created a gallery of examples of the Rcpp package in action: http://bit.ly/11Cdrtv The latest version of Mathematica features an R connection: http://bit.ly/11Cdrtw O'Reilly's Ed Dumbill cites R as part of "data computing", one of his four D's of the future of programming: http://bit.ly/11Cdp4N If you haven't yet read "Elements of Statistical Learning" or used the many R packages it mentions, you can download a PDF from the authors: http://bit.ly/11Cdrty Keynote speakers for R/Finance 2013 have been announced, and the call for papers is open: http://bit.ly/11Cdrtx Duncan Murdoch used his rgl package to create a real-world 3-D sculpture for $22: http://bit.ly/11Cdp4O Sean Taylor on what your choice of statistics software says about you: "[R] is not causing you to be a better scientist, but better scientists will be using it." http://bit.ly/11Cdp4Q A preview of R version 3, scheduled for this April: http://bit.ly/11Cdp4R Some non-R stories in the past month included: "Losing My Religion" in a major key sounds hopeful (http://bit.ly/11Cdp4P), an engrossing tour of the International Space Station (http://bit.ly/11CdrtA), a useful data visualization based on the Tube map (http://bit.ly/11Cdrtz), Nate Silver reveals his software choices on Reddit (http://bit.ly/11CdrtB), dumb ways to die (http://bit.ly/11Cdp4S), why you should say "Data is" and not "Data are" (http://bit.ly/11CdrtC), and some tips on getting started with Data Science (http://bit.ly/11CdrtD). There are new R user groups in Edmonton, Manila, San Francisco, Auckland, Manchester and Munich (http://bit.ly/11Cdp4T). 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 (Seattle WA, USA) Twitter: @revodavid We're hiring! www.revolutionanalytics.com/careers