[R] Revolutions Blog: September Roundup

[David Smith]

I write about R every weekday 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:

http://bit.ly/cuFNat presented a profile of Hadley Wickham, author of
many popular R packages including ggplot2 and reshape.

http://bit.ly/bS71Ld riffed the design of the new Twitter website into
a discussion on calculating the Golden Mean with R. Several readers
contributed 1-liners based on the Fibonacci sequence:
http://bit.ly/dvpemK .

http://bit.ly/bunYJE linked to some elegant code for calculating the
Mandelbrot set in R, and a beautiful animation of the results.

http://bit.ly/ahIZzo linked to a blog post by JD Long on simulating
multivariate random variables using copulas.

http://bit.ly/a8mjZm announced a ggplot2 data visualization competition.

http://bit.ly/cRKEZs linked to a discussion about the merits of dot
charts versus bar charts.

http://bit.ly/cavSLB announced the availability of Revolution R
Enterprise 4.0, available free to academics.

http://bit.ly/aBuFEt posted updated statistics on the growth in R
packages, and asked what other languages can learn from R's package
system.

http://bit.ly/cYujCF noted updates to the plyr and reshape packages,
featuring improved performance and parallel processing.

http://bit.ly/afhkSt noted that R 2.12 is scheduled for release on October 15.

http://bit.ly/bw6ylo announced RevoDeployR, Web Services integration
for R included in Revolution R Enterprise. You can download slides and
a replay of the webinar introducing RevoDeployR here:
http://bit.ly/aRUrPh .

http://bit.ly/afwmwf linked to a feature article about R in Tech
Target: "R's time is now".

http://bit.ly/bB2MVC reviewed the state of running R on the iPhone and iPad.

http://bit.ly/bBRHB2 noted that RHIPE creator Saptarshi Guha is
presenting at the Hadoop World conference, and linked to an interview
with him. (There's also a new profile of Saptarshi at:
http://bit.ly/9k7ABg .)

http://bit.ly/aPcxBP linked to a collection of guidelines for
efficient R programming by Martin Morgan.

http://bit.ly/aez046 relayed the Call for Papers for the R/Finance
2011 conference in Chicago.

http://bit.ly/bz8eX8 had guest blogger Joseph Rickert's thoughts on
the relationship between Map-Reduce/Hadoop and R.

http://bit.ly/bYQrt4 linked to some hints for the R beginner by Patrick Burns.

http://bit.ly/cU9BzF linked to Dirk Eddelbuettel's review of the
contributions to R resulting from this year's Google Summer of Code.

There are new R user groups in New Jersey (http://bit.ly/9JnRcg),
Brisbane, QLD (http://bit.ly/cVXHdp) and Toronto
(http://bit.ly/bWhJyw).

Other non-R-related stories in the past month included one about
mono-monostatic bodies (http://bit.ly/cr79bo), and (on a lighter
note), how statisticians and scientists (fail to) communicate
(http://bit.ly/aYgEEa), and funny airline safety videos
(http://bit.ly/bol1ZO).

The R Community Calendar has also been updated at:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/calendar.html

If you're looking for more articles about R, you can find summaries
from previous months at http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/roundups/.
Join the Revolution mailing list at
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articles on a monthly basis.

As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions
to me at david at revolutionanalytics.com . Don't forget you can also
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following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid).

Cheers,
# David


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