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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from June of particular interest to <a target="_blank" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/">R</a> users. </p>
<p>A preview of the <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/the-user-2016-tutorials.html">tutorials presented at the useR! 2016 conference</a>.</p>
<p>A &quot;advanced beginner's&quot; guide to R published by ComputerWorld includes <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/computerworlds-advanced-beginners-guide-to-r.html">guides on data wrangling, visualization, and data APIs</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/apache-spark-integrated-with-mrs-for-hadoop.html">Microsoft R Server now runs on Apache Spark</a>, bringing high performance to big-data analytics.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/livestreaming-of-user-2016-conference.html">Recordings of talks at the useR! 2016 conference</a> are now available to watch and download, with thanks to Microsoft's livestreaming of the conference.</p>
<p>You can <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/amazon-x-ray-data-provides-insight-into-movie-characters.html">download on-screen actor data for films and TV</a> using R via Amazon's X-ray service.</p>
<p>A review of <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/r-stan-bayesian-stats.html">new Bayesian statistics packages for R</a>, with a focus on Stan.</p>
<p>A short summary of the <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/r-331-now-available.html">fixes in R 3.3.1</a>, released on June 21.</p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/exploring-global-internet-performance-data-using-r.html">chart of global internet speeds</a>, created using R.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/updates-to-the-forecast-package-for-r.html">New features in the forecast package</a>, updated to version 7.</p>
<p>This year's Data Journalism Awards <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/data-journalism-awards-data-visualization-of-the-year-2016.html">Data Visualization of the Year was created with R</a>.</p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/the-r-packages-of-user-2016.html">150+ R packages presented during useR! 2016</a>.</p>
<p>Using GitHub avatars and the Microsoft Face API to estimate <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/programmers-gender.html">gender ratios of programmers by language used</a>.</p>
<p>Using the <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/taxi2.html">Data Science Virtual Machine and Microsoft R Server</a> to analyze data from 600 million taxi rides.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/r-holds-top-ranking-in-kdnuggets-software-poll.html">R is once again the top-ranked software</a> in the KDnuggets annual poll.</p>
<p>A tutorial on <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/mapping-in-r.html">making interactive data maps and charts with R</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/r-news.html">News from the R Consortium</a>, including new platinum member IBM.</p>
<p>Max Kuhn (author of the caret package) on <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/bayesian-optimization-of-machine-learning-models.html">Bayesian optimization of machine learning models in R</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/ross-ihaka-on-the-history-of-the-r-project.html">Ross Ihaka recounts the history of the R project</a> in an interview for the University of Auckland alumni magazine.</p>
<p>An R animation shows the <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/visualizing-a-flood-with-r.html">ebb and flow of a recent Delaware River flood</a>.</p>
<p>A look at <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/using-caret-to-compare-models.html">comparing statistical models with the caret package</a>.</p>
<p>The mscsweblm4r package provides an <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/microsoft-cognitive-services.html">R interface to several Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs for text analysis</a>.</p>
<p>General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: a <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/because-its-friday-a-robot-writes-a-movie.html">screenplay by a robot</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/because-its-friday-how-to-get-a-baby-to-sleep.html">parenting tips from a Kiwi dad</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/because-its-friday-the-dna-journey.html">contrasts of DNA and ethnicity</a> and some <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/because-its-friday-late-to-the-party-music.html">new favourite songs</a>.</p>
<p>As always, thanks for the comments and please send any suggestions to me at <a target="_blank" href="mailto:davidsmi@microsoft.com">davidsmi@microsoft.com</a>. Don't forget you can follow the blog using an RSS reader, via <a target="_blank" href="http://blogtrottr.com/">email using blogtrottr</a>, or by following me on Twitter (I'm <a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/revodavid">@revodavid</a>). You can find roundups of previous months <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/roundups/">here</a>.</p>
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