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 September: R code by Barry Rowlingson to replicate an XKCD comic about curve fitting: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/curve-fitting.html The rayshader package creates 3-D relief maps in R with perspective, shadows, and depth of field: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/raytracer.html The R Developer's Guide to Azure, with links to documentation for Azure cloud services integrating R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/index.html A review of many commercial applications of R presented at EARL London 2018: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/earl-london-2018.html Roundup of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news from September 2018: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/ai-roundup-september-2018.html A Shiny app using the Custom Vision API to identify pictures (or not) of hotdogs: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/not-hotdog-a-shiny-app-using-the-custom-vision-api.html Two academic articles use survey techniques to estimate casualties from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/mortality-in-puerto-rico.html Yihui Xie describes the benefits of RMarkdown documents in response to criticism of Jupyter Notebooks: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/notebooks-literate-programming.html A video demonstrates the use of R and Python in Azure HDinsight: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/r-python-azure-hdinsight.html Similarity analyses in R used to identify candidate authors for an anonymous op-ed in the New York Times: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/anonymous-nyt-op-ed.html A review of the book "SQL Server 2017 Machine Learning Services with R": http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/sql-server-2017-book-review.html And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R): * Inspiring radio from a young pilot's eventful first solo flight: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/because-its-friday-fly-strong.html * Various techniques used by media to project the track of Hurricane Florence: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/because-its-friday-hurricane-trackers.html * A 26-year timelapse of stars orbiting the galactic center: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/stars-in-motion.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