For more than 10 years, 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 November: David Gerard assesses the plausibility of a key plot point in 'Jurassic Park' with simulations in R: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/11/jurassic-park.html In-database R is available in Azure SQL Database for private preview: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/11/r-support-in-azure-sql-database.html Introducing AzureR, a new suite of R packages for managing Azure resources in R: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/11/azurer-intro.html The AzureRMR package provides an interface for Resource Manager. https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/11/azurermr-azure-resource-manager.html Roundup of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news from November 2018: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/11/ai-roundup-nov-2018.html You can now use the AI capabilities of Microsoft Cognitive Services within a container you host: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/11/cognitive-services-updates.html A look back at some of the R applications presented at the EARL conference in Seattle: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/11/report-from-earl-seattle.html Slides and notebooks from my ODSC workshop, AI for Good: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/11/workshop-ai-for-good.html T-Mobile uses AI models implemented with R to streamline customer service: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/11/t-mobile-uses-r.html A guide to R packages for importing and working with US Census data: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/11/working-with-us-census-data-in-r.html Azure Machine Learning Studio, the online drag-and-drop data analysis tool, upgrades its R support: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/11/azure-ml-studio-r-34.html And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R): * How the planets would look in the sky, if they were as close as the Moon: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/11/because-its-friday-if-planets-were.html * Pavarotti and Freddie Mercury, impersonated by the same performer: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/11/because-its-friday-pavarotti-v-mercury.html * The real-world physics of the sci-fi series The Expanse: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/11/because-its-friday-the-physics-of-the-expanse.html * Real robots and simulated people, dancing: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/11/because-its-friday-robot-dance.html * The different ways human languages write animal sounds: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/11/because-its-friday-animal-sounds.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> Cloud Advocate, Microsoft Cloud & AI Developer Relations Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: ?http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com