(This article was first published on The Praise of Insects, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

In the recent Barcode Bulletin published by iBoL, our humble paper announcing the R package spider: Species identity and evolution made second on their list of the top 10 publications of 2012. Not bad for a side project! Spider is available for download from CRAN, and R-Forge. Be sure to check out the spider website as well for a tutorial on the use of the package. References:
Brown SDJ, Collins RA, Boyer S, Lefort M-C, Malumbres-Olarte J, Vink CJ, Cruickshank RH. 2012. Spider: An R package for the analysis of species identity and evolution, with particular reference to DNA barcoding.Molecular Ecology Resources 12: 562–565.
To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on his blog: The Praise of Insects.
R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials on topics such as: visualization (ggplot2, Boxplots, maps, animation), programming (RStudio, Sweave, LaTeX, SQL, Eclipse, git, hadoop, Web Scraping) statistics (regression, PCA, time series,ecdf, trading) and more...

Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).