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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from May of particular interest to <a target="_blank" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/">R</a> users. </p>
<p>A 3-part tutorial on principal components regression in R: <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/principal-components-tutorial.html">part 1</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/principal-components-regression-part-2.html">part 2</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/principal-components-regression-in-r-part-3.html">part 3</a>.</p>
<p>Implications of the fact that <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/an-object-has-no-name.html">in R, names have objects</a> (and not vice-versa).</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/r-finance-2016.html">Highlights of the R/Finance 2016 conference</a>, according to Joseph Rickert.</p>
<p>A template for <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/predictive-maintenance-r-code.html">predicting maintenance events for aircraft engines</a>, using R.</p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/feather-package.html">&quot;feather&quot; package for fast data exchange between Python and R</a>, now on CRAN.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/microsoft-r-open-325-now-available.html">Microsoft R Open 3.2.5</a> now available.</p>
<p>There are now <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/user-groups-and-r-awareness.html">R user groups in 223 cities and 55 countries</a>.</p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/spark-20-to-include-more-r-models.html">preview of Spark 2.0</a> and the updated SparkR package.</p>
<p>All the <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/microsoft-r-server-documentation.html">documentation for Microsoft R Server</a> is now available to everyone, online.</p>
<p>The most popular (and controversial) <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/whats-in-pasta-carbonara.html">ingredients in pasta carbonara, visualized with R</a>.</p>
<p>Joseph Rickert's <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/good-r-packages.html">guidelines for identifying the best R packages</a>.</p>
<p>&quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/e-book-effective-graphs.html">Effective Graphs with Microsoft R Open</a>&quot;, a free e-book, is available for download.</p>
<p>Estimating <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/bike-rental-demand.html">demand for bike rentals in Washington, DC</a> with R.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/r-tools-for-visual-studio-30-now-available.html">R Tools for Visual Studio 0.3</a>, an IDE for the R language, is now available.</p>
<p>A brief summary of the <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/r-330-now-available.html">changes and new features in R 3.3.0</a>.</p>
<p>A tutorial on <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/minicran-sql-server.html">installing R packages on a firewalled SQL Server instance</a>.</p>
<p>How to <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/build-a-gradient-boosted-trees-model-with-mrs.html">train gradient-boosted trees with Microsoft R Server</a>.</p>
<p>Reproducing results in Efron's 1987 paper &quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/reading-efron-with-r-1.html">Logistic Regression, Survival Analysis, and the Kaplan-Meier Curve</a>&quot; using R.</p>
<p>General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included stories about: : <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/history-of-japan.html">the history of Japan</a>, a <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/magnet-machine.html">magnet machine</a>, an <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/because-its-friday-the-time-travelling-jukebox.html">audio-visual history of the Billboard Top 5</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/because-its-friday-the-roads-to-rome.html">roads to Romes</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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