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 May: The R Consortium has announced a new round of grants for projects proposed by the R community: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/r-consortium-spring-2018.html A look back at the ROpenSci unconference held in Seattle: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/reflections-on-the-ropensci-unconference.html Video of my European R Users Meeting talk, "Speeding up R with Parallel Programming in the Cloud": http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/video-speeding-up-r-foreach.html Slides from my talk at the Microsoft Build conference, "Open-Source Machine Learning in Azure": http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/open-source-machine-learning-in-azure.html Discussions on Twitter: R packages by stage of data analysis; thinking differently about AI development; and, why is package management harder in Python than R? http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/three-twitter-threads.html Microsoft R Open 3.4.4 is now available: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/microsoft-r-open-344-now-available.html And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R): * A really bad road in Nepal: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/because-its-friday-bad-road.html * Our May 2018 roundup of AI and data science news: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/ai-roundup-may-2018.html * The definitive answer to "Laurel" or "Yanny" (it's Laurel): http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/because-its-friday-laurel-or-yanny.html * Panelist Francesca Lazzeri reviews the Mind Bytes AI conference in Chicago: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/mind-bytes.html * A parody of air travel: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/because-its-friday-planes-pains-and-automobiles.html * When magpies attack: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/because-its-friday-the-eyes-dont-work.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