In case you missed them, here are some articles from October of particular interest to R users. Sponsorships for local R user groups from Revolution Analytics are now open to applicants worldwide. During the landfall of Hurricane Sandy in the US, several R-based apps used public weather and social media ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from September of particular interest to R users. You can now browse the R-devel sources and changelogs at GitHub. R is used to create a 3-D animation of the Antarctic ice cap. At the DataWeek SF conference, R users from eBay, ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from June of particular interest to R users. RStan is a new package for Bayesian modeling with R. It's faster and can fit more highly-correlated models than the MCMC sampler of BUGS and JAGS. Biostatistician Corey Chivers used R to animate ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from June of particular interest to R users. The Environmental Performance Index website uses R to rank countries by measures like environmental health and ecosystem vitality. A log-linear regression in R predicted the gold-winning Olympic 100m sprint time to be 9.68 seconds (... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from June of particular interest to R users. The FDA goes on the record that it's OK to use R for drug trials. A review of talks at the useR! 2012 conference. Using the negative binomial distribution to convert monthly fecundity into ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from May of particular interest to R users. R tops the annual KDNuggets Data Mining Software poll for the first time. R 2.15.1 is scheduled for June 22. (Revolution R Enterprise 6, released on June 5, is based on 2.14.2.) A tutorial uses R, Hadoop, and ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from April of particular interest to R users. Information Age published a feature article on R, describing how new graduates are driving adoption of R in industry. Bob Muenchen has updated his list of R package equivalents to SAS and SPSS ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from March of particular interest to R users. New features in the latest version of ggplot2 include choropleths, violin plots, and improved annotations. A video demonstration of big-data Naive Bayes and Classification Tree models with Revolution R Enterprise for IBM Netezza. ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from February of particular interest to R users. February 29 marked the 12th anniversary of the release of R 1.0.0, and the release of R 2.14.2. A list of commercial vendors who have integrated R with their products for data, analysis, and presentation. The ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from January of particular interest to R users. Sponsorships from Revolution Analytics are now available for local R user groups in 2012. The winners of the Applications of R in Business Contest have been announced. The coefplot package visualizes model coefficients and ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from November of particular interest to R users. R 2.14 now includes SVG support for Windows. The submissions for the Applications of R in Business contest are available for viewing online. A tutorial on using the Rdatamarket package to import public datasets ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from October of particular interest to R users. The creator of the ggplot2 package, Hadley Wickham, shares details on some forthcoming big-data graphics functions (based on research sponsored by Revolution Analytics). A list of several dozen free data sources that can ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from September of particular interest to R users. The deadline to enter the "R Applications" contest with $20,000 in prizes is October 31. The RHadoop Project, a new collection of open-source R packages from Revolution Analytics, makes it possible to write map-reduce jobs ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from August of particular interest to R users. A contest to showcase applications of R for businesses is offering $20,000 in prizes from Revolution Analytics. Three new open-source packages integrating R and Hadoop will be introduced by Revolution Analytics' CTO David Champagne ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from July of particular interest to R users. A simulation in R finds the value (or disadvantage) or drawing an X, J, Q or Z in Scrabble. How to display high-quality graphics on the web using SVG output from R. A ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from June of particular interest to R users. Highlights of presentations from the R/Finance 2011 conference. Trulia uses R and statistical models to map local crime. Resources for data mining with R. K-means clustering on large data sets with the RevoScaleR ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from May of particular interest to R users. A review of "R Cookbook", a new how-to book for R programmers. A detailed example of using the RevoScaleR package to analyze a large airline data set. A new guide for R beginners, "... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from April of particular interest to R users. The Heritage Health Prize, a competition to build predictive models for hospitalization with USD$3.2M in prizes, is open. The Inside-R.org community site now provides the ability to search and view the ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from February of particular interest to R users. The doSMP package, which enables parallel processing for R on multiprocessor machines, is now available on CRAN. The Offensive Politics blog provided R code used to make a map of precinct returns in ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from December of particular interest to R users. A Facebook employee created a beautiful visualization of social connections around the world, which made a lot of news on the Web. The creator, Paul Butler, explained how he did it using R. ... [Read more...]