Happy New Year! 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 December: R 3.5.2 is now available: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/12/r-352-announcement.html Roundup of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news from December 2018: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/12/airoundup-december-2018.html AzureStor, a new R package to interface with Azure Storage: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/12/azurestor.html How to use the "plumber" package to create an R service as a container with the AzureContainers package: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/12/azurecontainers.html How to give money to the R Foundation in support of the R project: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/12/support-your-tools.html The Revolutions blog is 10 years old, and I reflect on some milestones in a talk given at SatRDays DC: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/12/ten-years-of-revolutions.html Reshama Shaikh compares gender diversity within the R and Python communities: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/12/women-and-r.html AzureVM, a new package for managing virtual machines in Azure from R: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/12/azurevm.html And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R): * Santa Claus and compliance with GDPR: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/12/because-its-friday-santa-claus-gdpr.html * A parody on the use of CGI in film: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/12/because-its-friday-cgi-you-never-knew-was-cgi.html * The story behind Fleetwood Mac's 'Go Your Own Way': https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/12/because-its-saturday-go-your-own-way.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