Hi David, I think the revolution blog is fantastic and a great service to the R community. Thanks for all your hard work!
Hadley On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:54 PM, David M Smith <da...@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 the month of > April of particular interest to r-help subscribers. Thanks to everyone > who has been following the blog and sending me messages and/or leaving > comments -- it always brightens my day to hear from readers! > > http://tinyurl.com/cy7x9a (from April 1) announced the new > "lottopredictor" package, and showed how to make a poor-man's density > chart with transparent dots. > > http://tinyurl.com/c3pj48 announced the series of courses from > REvolution Computing: "An Introduction to R using Real-World Examples" > and "High-Performance Computing with R". > > http://tinyurl.com/csqmlq linked to a chart of R color names, while > http://tinyurl.com/darcho linked to a discussion about RColorBrewer, a > better way to create ranges of colors for charts. > > http://tinyurl.com/c7v8nm linked to a useful and amusing list of R > resources from Cerebral Mastication. > > http://tinyurl.com/cn64bf linked to solutions in R for some of the > Project Euler programming puzzles. > > http://tinyurl.com/c9qqq4 showed how to speed up backtesting in R with > parallel computing from ParallelR 2.0. > > http://tinyurl.com/cvtbmu discussed the animations package for > creating animated graphs in R. > > http://tinyurl.com/dnxn7n reviews a web-based tool in R for > visualizing performance of baseball pitchers. > > http://tinyurl.com/cl3u7u reviews another web-based tool built with R, > linking Google Maps with environmental data. > > http://tinyurl.com/cuec9g announced REvolution R Enterprise 2.0, while > http://tinyurl.com/czefgs gave a behind-the-scenes view of the process > of porting R to 64-bit Windows. > > http://tinyurl.com/crp6t4 marveled at an amazing feat of productivity: > creating a sales dashboard with only 6 week's experience in R. > > http://tinyurl.com/ctmyjq embedded a cute and popular professional > video introducing newcomers to R. > > http://tinyurl.com/dyszxb announced the availability of R 2.9.0 on CRAN. > > http://tinyurl.com/c26pl5 showed how survival analysis in R can be > applied to business systems. > > http://tinyurl.com/cvutfz announced that you can follow me on Twitter > as @revodavid. > > http://tinyurl.com/cunen5 reviewed several of the talks from the > outstanding R/Finance 2009 conference. > > http://tinyurl.com/dx3srx announced two events I'll be speaking at in > San Francisco in May and June. > > (I've provided tinyurls above because many mailers break the long direct > URLs.) > > Quite a lot of R-specific posts this month! There were also general > (non-R) articles about statistics and probability, graphical displays > of data, and swine flu. Also, the R Community Calendar has been > updated with many forthcoming events related to R. > http://blog.revolution-computing.com/calendar.html > > Comments and suggestions about the blog are welcome! (My email is > da...@revolution-computing.com ). > > Regards to all, > # David Smith > > -- > David M Smith <da...@revolution-computing.com> > Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com > Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) > > Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
