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 July: R moves up to 5th place in the annual IEEE Spectrum programming language rankings: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/r-moves-up-to-5th-place-in-ieee-language-rankings.html A guide to R-related presentations at the JSM 2016 conference: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/an-r-users-guide-to-jsm-2016.html FiveThirtyEight uses R extensively for data journalism, as explained in a presentation at useR!2016: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/data-journalism-with-r-at-538.html An in-depth look at DeployR's enterprise security model when calling R functions via the web services API: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/deployr-enterprise-security-model.html Microsoft R Open 3.3.0 is now available for Windows, Mac and PC: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/microsoft-r-open-330-now-available.html A survey of quantitative business professionals ranks R in top position by usage (followed by SAS and Python): http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/burtch-survey.html Microsoft is hosting its first Data Science Summit: a conference for data scientists in Atlanta GA, September 26-27: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/microsoft-ds-summit.html An interactive tree map of Pokemon Go characters, created with R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/an-analysis-of-pok%C3%A9mon-go-types-created-with-r.html Using R to manage energy usage on the Microsoft campus: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/energy-load-shaping.html Why does NA^0 equal 1 in R? http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/understanding-na-in-r.html Two presentations by me, recorded at useR!2016: How Microsoft uses data science to improve the lives of people with disabilities, and how R is integrated into Microsoft products: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/r-at-microsoft-user-2016.html A review of some recently-released R packages, by Joe Rickert: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/some-new-r-packages.html How to create a Power BI dashboard based on SQL Server and R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/sql-server-power-bi-and-r.html Microsoft R Client is a desktop-based version of Microsoft R Server, includes the big-data ScaleR package, and free to download and use: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/microsoft-r-client.html Resources (code and slides) from the tutorials presented at the useR!2016 conference: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/user-2016-tutorials-part-2-.html Rick Becker presents the birth of the S language at Bell Labs: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/rick-becker-s-talk.html Using Microsoft R Server within the Data Science Virtual Machine to graph airline delays from 14Gb of flight records: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/dplyrxdf-flight-arrival-delays.html General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: bad maps (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/because-its-friday-bad-maps.html), bird migration (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/because-its-friday-bird-migration.html), how to tell a B737 from an A320 (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/because-its-friday-b373-a320.html), a beginner's introduction to data science (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/data-science-for-beginners.html), animal 'facts' (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/fake-animal-facts.html), and animals and fairness (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/because-its-friday-animal-intelligence-animal-fairness.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