Since 2008, Revolution Analytics (and now Microsoft) staff and guests have written 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: You can use emojis as plotting symbols in ggplot2 charts with the emoGG package: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/emojis-in-ggplot-graphics.html A review of local R user group activity in 2015: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/r-user-group-activity-2015.html Giving thanks to the R Core Group: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/happy-thanksgiving.html Some best practices for handling secret API keys in R scripts: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/how-to-store-and-use-authentication-details-with-r.html An animated globe showing locations of Marriott and Starwood hotels using the rthreejs package: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/marriott.html PowerBI has added support for R graphics in dashboards: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/powerbi-adds-support-for-r.html A detailed R-based analysis of over a billion taxi rides in New York City: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/new-york-taxi-uber.html Joseph Rickert recommends books for learning the R language and for data analysis in R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/r-recommended-reading.html The AzureML package has been updated to allow R functions to connect with workspaces, datasets, and experiments in Azure ML Studio: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/azureml-update.html A simulation-based approach to explaining Simpson's Paradox: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/fun-with-simpsons-paradox-simulating-confounders.html Two new surveys show that R continues to be the most popular language for data scientists: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/new-surveys-show-continued-popularity-of-r.html R was featured in many presentations at this year's H2Oworld conference: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/h2o-world-2015.html Some tips on handling packages when working with R projects: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/r-projects.html fluent-r, a new R integration library for JVM developers: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/fluent-r.html Online investing service Betterment uses R for modeling, analysis and reporting: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/betterment-uses-r.html Applications of R were presented at the EARL conference by Verizon, Pfizer, Wikipedia, and many others: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/applications-of-r-at-earl-2015-boston.html Simulating sample data reproducibly using the wakefield package: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/using-the-wakefield-package-to-easily-generate-reproducible-sample-data.html Using the RJSONIO package to download Bitcoin exchange data: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/accessing-bitcoin-data-with-r.html A series on using differential privacy for machine learning: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/differential-privacy-mini-series-from-win-vector.html The R Consortium has funded its first community project, and is now accepting proposals for future projects: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/r-consortium-funds-first-community-project-accepting-proposals-for-more.html General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: ball-moving contraptions in Lego (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/gbc.html), why you can't photograph propellers (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/because-its-friday-why-you-cant-take-photos-of-propellers.html), fun with magnets (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/because-its-friday-magnets.html), and a dangerous playground (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/because-its-friday-monash-playground.html). Meeting times for local R user groups (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/local-r-groups.html) can be found on the updated R Community Calendar at: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/calendar.html If you're looking for more articles about R, you can find summaries from previous months at http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/roundups/. You can receive daily blog posts via email using services like blogtrottr.com, or join the Revolution Analytics 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 davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <davidsmi at microsoft.com> R Community Lead, Microsoft? Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com