[R] Revolutions blog: June roundup

[Mark Knecht]

David,
   Using this mail I think I found a simple solution for something I
knew I was going to have to learn about.

Thanks,
Mark

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:48 AM, David M
Smith<david at revolution-computing.com> wrote:
> I write about R every weekday at http://blog.revolution-computing.com
> . In case you missed them, here are some articles from last month of
> particular interest to R users.
>
> http://bit.ly/tygLz announced the release of the "foreach" and
> "iterators" packages on CRAN, for simple scalable parallel programming
> in R.
>
> http://bit.ly/FDS67 linked to Thomas Levin's Joy-Division-esque band
> T-shirt made with R
>
> http://bit.ly/16zTph discussed R's involvement in the Netflix Prize
>
> http://bit.ly/dTOkF revealed that the New York Times uses R to create
> graphics, including an interactive chart of Michael Jackson's musical
> career
>
> http://bit.ly/PZRA2 described how to run batch jobs using R CMD BATCH
>
> http://bit.ly/hE56B reviewed "Data Mashups in R", an extended example
> of corralling foreclosure data from various sources
>
> http://bit.ly/h9yfB announced a new "statistical learning web service"
> implemented with R
>
> http://bit.ly/Ncmwe was one of a series of posts looking at fraud in
> the Iranian election (including a now-famous analysis done in R)
>
> http://bit.ly/wTYAe linked to a widely-reproduced R graph on gay
> marriage support
>
> http://bit.ly/11AV4k linked to free source code of many R graphs on
> Wikimedia Commons
>
> http://bit.ly/npwoA demonstrated animation of R graphics using Flash
>
> http://bit.ly/VYvnD linked to a comparison of various statistical
> analyses done in R, SAS and SPSS
>
> http://bit.ly/gxA3g showed how Twitter users can "tweet" using R code
>
> http://bit.ly/31AOs linked to an analysis of basketball plays done in R
>
> http://bit.ly/18quFi linked to a video walkthrough and code for bagged
> decision trees in R
>
> http://bit.ly/BIdNp gave some tips, tricks and pitfalls on working
> with dates and time zones in R
>
> http://bit.ly/TwlvR brought the news that R was used in a winning
> entry of KDD 2009
>
> (I've provided short URLs above because many mailers break the long
> direct URLs.)
>
> Other non-R-specific stories in June covered Simpson's Paradox in
> polling data, Google Squared, real random numbers, the chances of a
> meteor bringing down an aircraft, amusing article titles from PubMed,
> and open-source user interfaces.
>
> June was a record-breaking traffic month for the blog. The "Data
> Mashups" article and the discussion of the Iranian Election were
> highly visited. Thanks to everyone who provided comments and tips and
> please keep them coming to david at revolution-computing.com .
>
> Regards to all,
> # David Smith
>
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