In case you missed it: October roundup

In case you missed them, here are some articles from last month of particular interest to R users.

This post offered a sneak peek of the debugger we've since released for subscribers of REvolution R Enterprise on Windows .

This post brought news of big changes for us here at REvolution Computing, with new funding and a new CEO.

This post showcased Jeroen Oons' web-based interface to the lme4 package.

This post linked to some animated data visualizations created with R.

This post celebrated the 50,000th update to the R source code, and linked to Romain François' analysis of the rate of code changes over time.

This post brought news of new R user groups in Germany, Spain, and Washington, DC.

This post linked to some pointers on getting started with Machine Learning in R.

This post lists seven tips for surviving R, based on John Mount's talk at the Bay Area UseR Group.

This post announced the inclusion of REvolution R in the recent Ubuntu Linux update.

This post provides a source of up-to-date political and administrative boundaries for geographic maps in R.

This post shows how to export several data frames from R to a multi-sheet Excel workbook.

This post linked to some tips on using Hadley Wickham's handy ply package.

This post reminds that the UseR! conference will be in Maryland USA next year, and you can register and submit abstracts now.

Other non-R-specific stories in the last month covered polling fraud, how Shazam can identify a song from a noisy 10-second clip and (on the lighter side) Carl Sagan singing, data mining disasters, truthful lottery tickets, and a music video featuring trigonometry. Want more? Check out our index of previous monthly roundups. 

The R Community Calendar has also been updated.

October was another record-breaking traffic month the Revolutions blog. As always, thanks for the comments and please send any suggestions to me at david@revolution-computing.com.

Don't forget you can follow the blog using an RSS reader like Google Reader, or by following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid).

Comments

[Ajay]

Pretty Nice round up. This blog is aesthetically much nicer and cleaner to lookup for guys like me wanting to keep up with the latest in R.

Keep it up , Mr Smith ;)

Any plans to come up with a short book- booklet yet? That would be nice from you (given the numerous useful R tips one finds here)

Ajay

[Ajay]

but how about publishing the Traffic openly as well