[R] Revolutions blog: August 2018 roundup

[David Smith (CDA)]

Since 2008, 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 August:

A guide to installing R and RStudio with packages and multithreaded BLAS on
various platforms:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/installation-guide.html

Some tips for Excel users migrating to R for data analysis:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/how-to-use-r-with-excel.html 

Videos of presentations from the New York R Conference:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/videos-from-nyc-r-conference.html

The Chartmaker Directory compares and provides examples of data visualizations
for dozens of tools, including R:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/chartmaker-directory.html

Siraj Raval's video overview of Azure machine learning services:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/aml-video.html

A simple script based on the gganimate package illustrates the luminance
illusion: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/luminance-illusion.html

Roundup of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news from August 2018:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/ai-roundup-august-2018.html

A package to make R play text as speech:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/make-r-speak.html

Microsoft R Open 3.5.1 is now available:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/mro-351-now-available.html

R ranks #14 in the June 2018 Redmonk Language Rankings:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/redmonk-language-rankings-june-2018.html

R drops one place to #7 in the 2018 IEEE Language Rankings:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/ieee-language-rankings-2018.html

A video tutorial on running R and Python in SQL Server from a Jupyter Notebook:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/r-python-in-sql-server.html

The cover story for Significance Magazine celebrates 25 years of the R project:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/r-generation.html

And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R):

* The Curiosity Show, the 80's Australian science program for kids:
  http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/because-its-friday-the-curiosity-show.html

* A visualization of the prime factors of the first million integers shows
  surprising structure:
  http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/one-million-integers.html

* Brexit as the Titanic disaster:
  http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/because-its-friday-a-titanic-brexit.html

* An experimental underwater data center gets a fishcam:
  http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/because-its-friday-a-turbine-under-the-sea.html

* A parody commercial for Australia tourism focuses on the "dangers":
  http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/undangerous-australia.html

As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at
davidsmi using microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid).

Cheers,
# David

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