Since 2008, Microsoft staff and guests have written about R 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 April: Microsoft R Open 3.4.4, based on R 3.4.4, is now available: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/microsoft-r-open-344-now-available.html An R script by Ryan Timpe converts a photo into instructions for rendering it as LEGO bricks http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/lego-sculpture.html R functions to build a random maze in Minecraft, and have your avatar solve the maze automatically: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/minecraft-robot-in-r.html A dive into some of the internal changes bringing performance improvements to the new R 3.5.0: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/r-350.html AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup, April 2018: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/ai-roundup-apr-2018.html An analysis with R shows that Uber has overtaken taxis for trips in New York City: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/uber-overtakes-taxis-in-nyc.html News from the R Consortium: new projects, results from a survey on licenses, and R-Ladies is promoted to a top-level project http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/updates-from-r-consortium.html A talk, aimed at Artificial Intelligence developers, making the case for using R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/the-case-for-r-for-ai-developers.html Bob Rudis analyzes data from the R-bloggers.com website, and lists the top 10 authors: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/r-bloggers.html An R-based implementation of Silicon Valley's "Not Hotdog" application: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/not-hotdog.html An R package for creating interesting designs with generative algorithms: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/mathematical-art-in-r-.html And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R): * Learn regular expressions with interactive "crosswords": http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/because-its-friday-regex-games.html * A tongue-in-cheek review of Wes Anderson's movies: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/because-its-friday-every-wes-anderson-movie.html * Snarky captions for incorrect maps used in news reports: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/bad-maps-on-tv.html * A few podcast recommendations, from me: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/podcasts.html 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> Developer Advocate, Microsoft Cloud & Enterprise Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com