In case you missed it: November roundup
Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
In case you missed them, here are some articles from November of particular interest to R users.
R 2.14 now includes SVG support for Windows.
The submissions for the Applications of R in Business contest are available for viewing online.
A tutorial on using the Rdatamarket package to import public datasets into R.
Free books on R for multivariate analysis, biomedical statistics, and time series available for download.
Revolution R Enterprise 5.0 has been released. Download the slides and replay for the webinar . It's available for free download to members of the academic community. There's a review of the new release here.
Hadley Wickham presents the “R Development Master Class” in San Francisco.
Slides and a video interview from a talk on the RHadoop project given at Hadoop World 2011.
Using calendar heat maps in R to visualize training for a marathon.
Modeling 70Gb of birth records data using the RevoScaleR package.
Why we do need to deal with big data in R.
The University of Washington is offering a web-based course on financial modeling with R.
R performance tip: pre-allocate a vector, rather than extending it in a loop.
A review of the new book “The Art of R Programming” by Norman Matloff.
R remains the preferred tool of participants in the Kaggle predictive modeling competitions.
Other non-R-related stories in the past month included: data mining wine, creating a “holodeck” with Kinect sensors, visualizing a year of the sky and a radio series on Big Data.
Meeting times for R user groups can be found on the updated R Community Calendar.
As always, thanks for the comments and please send any suggestions to me at [email protected]. Don't forget you can follow the blog using an RSS reader like Google Reader, or by following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid). You can find roundups of previous months here.
R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/data-science job.
Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.