Since 2008, Microsoft (formerly Revolution Analytics) 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. And in case you missed them, here are some articles related to R from the month of January: Animated visualizations and analysis of data from NYC's municipal bike program, created with R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/new-yorkers-municipal-bikes-and-the-weather.html Many local R user groups are sharing materials from meetups using Github: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/r-user-groups-on-github.html A detailed R tutorial on analyzing your Twitter archive and performing sentiment analysis: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/twitter-sentiment.html How to combine R and Python in Jupyter notebooks: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/pipelining-r-python.html Many datasets are available for analysis in R using Kaggle's online platform, including the American Community Survey: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/american-community-survey-analyzed-with-r.html Getting started with Markov Chains in R http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/getting-started-with-markov-chains.html and even more R packages for Markov Chain analysis: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/markov-chains-part-2.html Replays are available for recent webinars on Microsoft R Open and Microsoft R Server: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/microsoft-r-webinars.html Microsoft R Open 3.2.3 (formerly Revolution R Open), and new CRAN Time Machine now available at MRAN: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/microsoft-r-open-323-now-available.html Overview of parallel computing in R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/a-gentle-introduction-to-parallel-computing-in-r.html R packages providing sources of data: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/new-data-sources-for-r.html Visual Studio will soon support the R language: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/new-data-sources-for-r.html Microsoft R Server available free to students and developers: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/r-dreamspark.html Revolution R is now Microsoft R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/microsoft-r-open.html A new ggplot2 extension avoids overlapping text labels: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/avoid-overlapping-labels-in-ggplot2-charts.html R played a big part in a scientific breakthrough regarding reproducibility of results: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/rs-role-in-science-breakthrough-reproducibility-of-psychology-studies.html An online data science course using Microsoft Azure and R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/video-course-data-science-with-microsoft-azure-and-r.html A review of the 7th R user conference in Spain: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/7th-meeting-of-spanish-r-users-5-6-november-2015-salamanca-spain.html Using network analysis in R to explore connections in the movie "Love Actually" http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/analyzing-movie-connections-with-r.html The most popular posts on the Revolutions blog in 2015: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/top-posts-of-2015.html General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: pinball skills (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/because-its-friday-flipper-tricks.html), when walking up the escalator is inefficient (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/because-its-friday-stand-on-the-left-and-on-the-right.html), Pokemon or Big Data (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/because-its-friday-pokemon-or-big-data-tool.html), and mimicking famous guitar styles (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/get-lucky-guitar.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. 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