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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from August 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/2018/08/installation-guide.html" target="_blank">A guide to installing R</a> and RStudio with packages and multithreaded BLAS on various platforms.</p>
<p>Some <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/how-to-use-r-with-excel.html" target="_blank">tips for Excel users migrating to R</a> for data analysis.</p>
<p>Videos of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/videos-from-nyc-r-conference.html" target="_blank">presentations from the New York R Conference</a>.</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/chartmaker-directory.html" target="_blank">Chartmaker Directory</a> compares and provides examples of data visualizations for dozens of tools, including R.</p>
<p>Siraj Raval's <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/aml-video.html" target="_blank">video overview of Azure machine learning services</a>.</p>
<p>A simple R script based on the gganimate package <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/luminance-illusion.html" target="_blank">illustrates the luminance illusion</a>. </p>
<p>Roundup of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news from <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/ai-roundup-august-2018.html" target="_blank">August 2018</a>. </p>
<p>A package to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/make-r-speak.html" target="_blank">make R play text as speech</a>. </p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/mro-351-now-available.html" target="_blank">Microsoft R Open 3.5.1</a> is now available. </p>
<p>R ranks #14 in the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/redmonk-language-rankings-june-2018.html" target="_blank">June 2018 Redmonk Language Rankings</a>.</p>
<p>R drops one place to #7 in the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/ieee-language-rankings-2018.html" target="_blank">2018 IEEE Language Rankings</a>. </p>
<p>A video tutorial on running <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/r-python-in-sql-server.html" target="_blank">R and Python in SQL Server from a Jupyter Notebook</a>.</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/r-generation.html" target="_blank">cover story for Significance Magazine</a> celebrates 25 years of the R project. </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/2018/08/because-its-friday-the-curiosity-show.html" target="_blank">The Curiosity Show</a>, the 80's Australian science program for kids.</li>
<li>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/one-million-integers.html" target="_blank">visualization of the prime factors</a> of the first million integers shows surprising structure.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/because-its-friday-a-titanic-brexit.html" target="_blank">Brexit as the Titanic disaster</a>. </li>
<li>An <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/because-its-friday-a-turbine-under-the-sea.html" target="_blank">experimental underwater data center</a> gets a fishcam.</li>
<li>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/08/undangerous-australia.html" target="_blank">parody commercial for Australia tourism</a> focuses on the &quot;dangers&quot;.</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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