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 August: A guide to installing R and RStudio with packages and multithreaded BLAS on various platforms: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/installation-guide.html Some tips for Excel users migrating to R for data analysis: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/how-to-use-r-with-excel.html Videos of presentations from the New York R Conference: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/videos-from-nyc-r-conference.html The Chartmaker Directory compares and provides examples of data visualizations for dozens of tools, including R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/chartmaker-directory.html Siraj Raval's video overview of Azure machine learning services: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/aml-video.html A simple script based on the gganimate package illustrates the luminance illusion: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/luminance-illusion.html Roundup of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news from August 2018: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/ai-roundup-august-2018.html A package to make R play text as speech: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/make-r-speak.html Microsoft R Open 3.5.1 is now available: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/mro-351-now-available.html R ranks #14 in the June 2018 Redmonk Language Rankings: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/redmonk-language-rankings-june-2018.html R drops one place to #7 in the 2018 IEEE Language Rankings: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/ieee-language-rankings-2018.html A video tutorial on running R and Python in SQL Server from a Jupyter Notebook: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/r-python-in-sql-server.html The cover story for Significance Magazine celebrates 25 years of the R project: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/r-generation.html And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R): * The Curiosity Show, the 80's Australian science program for kids: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/because-its-friday-the-curiosity-show.html * A visualization of the prime factors of the first million integers shows surprising structure: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/one-million-integers.html * Brexit as the Titanic disaster: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/because-its-friday-a-titanic-brexit.html * An experimental underwater data center gets a fishcam: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/because-its-friday-a-turbine-under-the-sea.html * A parody commercial for Australia tourism focuses on the "dangers": http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/undangerous-australia.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