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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from September of particular interest to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/" target="_blank">R</a> users.</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/convert-hand-drawn-equations-to-latex-with-the-mathpix-package.html" target="_blank">mathpix package</a> converts images of hand-drawn equations to their LaTeX equivalent.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/r-342-is-released.html" target="_blank">R 3.4.2</a> is released. </p>
<p>Applying image featurization to the problem of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/wood-knots.html" target="_blank">classifying wood knots in lumber</a>.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/microsoft-ml-server-92.html" target="_blank">Microsoft ML Server 9.2</a>, which provides operationalization for R, is released.</p>
<p>A roundup of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/news-from-ignite.html" target="_blank">news stories related to R from the Ignite conference</a>.</p>
<p>A tutorial on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/hdinsight-tutorial.html" target="_blank">launching a Spark cluster with R on HDInsight</a>.</p>
<p>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/pirating-pirate-data-for-pirate-day.html" target="_blank">map of pirate attacks</a>, and an ethics lesson on scraping data.</p>
<p>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/altrep-preview.html" target="_blank">preview of ALTREP</a>, the new vector implementation that promises to bring performance improvements to the R engine.</p>
<p>The USGS used R to visualize the rainfall from hurricanes <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/hurricane-irmas-rains-visualized-with-r.html" target="_blank">Irma</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/hurricane-harvey-usgs.html" target="_blank">Harvey</a>.</p>
<p>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/preview-of-earl-london-2017.html" target="_blank">preview of the EARL London conference</a>, and highlights of some <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/recap-earl-london-2017.html" target="_blank">R applications presented</a> there.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/mro-341-now-available.html" target="_blank">Microsoft R Open 3.4.1</a>, featuring R 3.4.1, is now available.</p>
<p>A new <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/a-new-edx-course-on-building-artificial-intelligence-applications.html" target="_blank">edX course on Artificial Intelligence development</a>.</p>
<p>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/r-services-working-with-data-frames.html" target="_blank">introduction to R data frames</a> for SQL Server users.</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/newsflash.html" target="_blank">newsflash package</a> extracts trending topics from cable news closed captioning streams.</p>
<p><em><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/data-visualization-for-social-science.html" target="_blank">Data Visualization for Social Science</a></em>, a new online textbook with a focus on ggplot2.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/knime-azure.html" target="_blank">Knime 3.4</a> now includes connections to Microsoft R and Azure data services.</p>
<p>&quot;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/practical-data-science-for-stats.html" target="_blank">Practical Data Science for Stats</a>&quot;, a PeerJ Preprints collection of R-related papers.</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/2017/09/because-its-friday-big-little-songs.html" target="_blank">Music by Michael Kiwanuka</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/because-its-friday-blue-skies-or-skynet.html" target="_blank">A talk on artificial intelligence and runaway reward functions</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/because-its-friday-spacex.html" target="_blank">SpaceX's blooper reel</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/because-its-friday-radiohead-videotape.html" target="_blank">A search for syncopation in Radiohead's &quot;Videotape&quot;</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/09/friday-fake-views.html" target="_blank">A system for lifelike synthesis of a speaker's video and audio</a></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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