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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from April of particular interest to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/" target="_blank">R</a> users.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/microsoft-r-open-344-now-available.html" target="_blank">Microsoft R Open 3.4.4</a>, based on R 3.4.4, is now available.</p>
<p>An R script by Ryan Timpe <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/lego-sculpture.html" target="_blank">converts a photo into instructions for rendering it as LEGO bricks</a>.</p>
<p>R functions to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/minecraft-robot-in-r.html" target="_blank">build a random maze in Minecraft</a>, and have your avatar solve the maze automatically.</p>
<p>A dive into some of the internal changes bringing <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/r-350.html" target="_blank">performance improvements to the new R 3.5.0</a>.</p>
<p>AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/ai-roundup-apr-2018.html" target="_blank">April 2018</a>. </p>
<p>An analysis with R shows that <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/uber-overtakes-taxis-in-nyc.html" target="_blank">Uber has overtaken taxis</a> for trips in New York City.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/updates-from-r-consortium.html" target="_blank">News from the R Consortium</a>: new projects, results from a survey on licenses, and R-Ladies is promoted to a top-level project.</p>
<p>A talk, aimed at Artificial Intelligence developers, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/the-case-for-r-for-ai-developers.html" target="_blank">making the case for using R</a>.</p>
<p>Bob Rudis <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/r-bloggers.html" target="_blank">analyzes data from the R-bloggers.com website</a>, and lists the top 10 authors.</p>
<p>An R-based <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/not-hotdog.html" target="_blank">implementation of Silicon Valley's &quot;Not Hotdog&quot; application</a>.</p>
<p>An R package for <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/mathematical-art-in-r-.html" target="_blank">creating interesting designs with generative algorithms</a>.</p>
<p>And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R):</p>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/because-its-friday-regex-games.html" target="_blank">Learn regular expressions with interactive &quot;crosswords&quot;</a></li>
<li>A tongue-in-cheek <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/because-its-friday-every-wes-anderson-movie.html" target="_blank">review of Wes Anderson's movies</a></li>
<li>Snarky captions for <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/bad-maps-on-tv.html" target="_blank">incorrect maps used in news reports</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/podcasts.html" target="_blank">A few podcast recommendations</a>, from me</li>
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<p>As always, thanks for the comments and please send any suggestions to me at <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:davidsmi@microsoft.com" target="_blank">davidsmi@microsoft.com</a>. Don't forget you can follow the blog using an RSS reader, via <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blogtrottr.com/" target="_blank">email using blogtrottr</a>, or by following me on Twitter (I'm <a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/revodavid" target="_blank">@revodavid</a>). You can find roundups of previous months <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/roundups/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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