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 July: R package authors validate quality and security for their packages with the Linux Foundation's CII Best Practices Badge Program: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/cii-certification-for-r-packages.html R scripts to generate images in the style of famous artworks, like Mondrian's: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/art-with-code.html A 6-minute video tour of the AI and Machine Learning services in Azure, including R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/a-quick-tour-of-ai-services-in-azure.html The July roundup of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/ai-roundup-july-2018.html An R package used to tile hexagons, used to create a striking banner of hex stickers for useR!2018: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/user-2017-hexwall.html Highlights and links to videos from the useR!2018 conference: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/user-2018-recap.html Video and R scripts from my workshop on creating an app to detect images of hotdogs: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/r-for-ai-video.html Microsoft has released a number of open data sets produced from its research programs: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/msr-open-data.html R 3.5.1 has been released: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/r-351-update-now-available-.html And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R): * An app to visualize the distribution of street orientations in cities: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/because-its-friday-urban-planning-fight.html * A TED talk explores the link between spoken language and the way we think: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/because-its-friday-language-and-thought.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