We're pleased to announce that the latest update to Revolution R Enterprise is available today! Existing subscribers will soon receive an email with update instructions, and the free academic distribution will be updated later today. Version 6.1 adds a frequently-requested big-data statistical modeling algorithm, adds new connectivity option for Hadoop, improves ... [Read more...]

As promised, the source distribution for R 2.15.2 is now available for download from the master CRAN repository. (Binary distributions for Windows, MacOS and Linux will be available from the CRAN mirror network in the coming days.) This latest point-update — codenamed "Trick or Treat" — improves the performance of the R engine ... [Read more...]

A big thank-you to all the R users out there who voted for Revolution R Enterprise in DataWeek Awards. We're so pleased to be recognized by the voters and the DataWeek judging panel with the Top Innovator Award for Data Science Technology. We're looking forward to the awards ceremony next ... [Read more...]

The latest update to open-source R, R 2.15.1, was released this morning. (You can grab sources now, and binary versions will hit the CRAN mirrors over the next couple of days.) In addition to several new features and bug fixes (including the new globalVariables function, which will be a boon to ... [Read more...]

Revolution Analytics is proud to announce the latest update to our enhanced, production-grade distribution of R, Revolution R Enterprise. This update expands the range of supported computation platforms, adds new Big Data predictive models, and updates to the latest stable release of open source R (2.14.2), which improves performance of the ... [Read more...]

We are organising the second Milano R net meeting in September 27, 2012. [Read more...]

The R core group today announced the availability of R 2.15.0, codenamed "Easter Beagle". If you build R yourself, the new source distribution (including packages for Debian Linux) is available now, and binaries for Windows, MacOS and Linux will be available from your local CRAN mirror over the next couple of ... [Read more...]

First Milano R net meeting. When: May 8, 2012, from 18.00 to 21.00 Where: Fiori Oscuri Bar & Bistrot, Via Fiori Oscuri 3, Milano. Further details [Read more...]

As promised by the R Core Group, R 2.14.2 is out. This is the final patchlevel of the R 2.14.x series (R 2.15.0 is due on March 30), and so R 2.14.2 will be the R engine for the next release of Revolution R Enterprise in a couple of months. Today also marks the 12... [Read more...]

We are organising the first Milano R net meeting in May 2012. Please visit this page in a few days for news. [Read more...]

The R core group has announced release dates for the next two versions of R (with their code names): 2.14.2 "Gift-Getting Season" on Feb 29 (3rd anniversary of R-1.0.0!) 2.15.0 "Easter Beagle" on Mar 30 R 1.0.0 was released twelve years ago on February 29, 2000; this will be the third February 29 since then. (Hence Peter Dalgaard's ... [Read more...]

The Dev Team at Revolution Analytics recently released an update to the Revolution R 5 family. Version 5.0.1 adds compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for all editions (Community, Academic and Enterprise). This expands the platform support to Red Hat 5, Red Hat 6 and Microsoft Windows. For Revolution R Enterprise customers and users ... [Read more...]

We're proud to announce the latest update to the enhanced, commercial-grade distribution of R, Revolution R Enterprise 5.0. With each new release, Revolution R Enterprise adds more capabilities to open-source R, to make R users more productive, to improve performance of R programs, to support Big Data analytics, and to provide ... [Read more...]

As scheduled, the first release of the new R 2.14 series is now available for download in source code form. As of this writing, pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Linux and MacOS aren't yet available, but will appear on your local CRAN mirror in the next couple of days. One of the ... [Read more...]

The R core team announced today that R 2.13.2 is now available: The byte pixies have rolled up R-2.13.2.tar.gz at 9:00 this morning. This is intended to be the final release of the 2.13 series, for the benefit of those apprehensive of putting 2.14.x into production use. This update fixes a ... [Read more...]

The next major release of R has been announced: R 2.14.0 is scheduled for October 31. Details are still coming in about the new features planned for this release, but R core member Luke Tierney has revealed some of the performance improvements expected, and R core member Brian Ripley has spoken of ... [Read more...]

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TU Dortmund professor Uwe Ligges is now a member of R-core, the group of 20 leading statisticians and computer scientists who oversee the R Project and develop and maintain the source code for the R engine and its core packages. Uwe has been very active in the R project for many ... [Read more...]

As announced by the R core team, R 2.13.1 has been released on schedule today. For those who build R themselves, updated source code is available now; pre-built binaries will propagate through the CRAN network over the next couple of days. This update includes some minor bug fixes to graphics, fixes ... [Read more...]

The R Core team announced today that the next update to R, version 2.13.1, will be released on July 8. Core team member Peter Dalgaard noted: The 2.13.0 release has been quite solid, but some people expect an x.y.1 to roll out on larger installations for the next academic year. Of course, ... [Read more...]