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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/november-2017-roundup.html"> Revolutions</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from November 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/2017/11/r-343-released.html" target="_blank">R 3.4.3 &quot;Kite Eating Tree&quot;</a> has been released.</p>
<p>Several approaches for <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/how-to-generate-a-secret-santa-list-with-r.html" target="_blank">generating a &quot;Secret Santa&quot; list with R</a>.</p>
<p>The &quot;RevoScaleR&quot; package from Microsoft R Server has now been <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/revoscalepy.html" target="_blank">ported to Python</a>.</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/rfinance-2018.html" target="_blank">call for papers for the R/Finance 2018 conference</a> in Chicago is now open.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/happy-thanksgiving.html" target="_blank">Give thanks</a> to the volunteers behind R.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/r-ladies-chicago-part-1.html" target="_blank">Advice for R user groups</a> from the organizer of R-Ladies Chicago.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/doazureparallel-containers.html" target="_blank">Use containers to build R clusters</a> for parallel workloads in Azure with the doAzureParallel package.</p>
<p>A collection of R scripts for <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/charts-in-280-chars.html" target="_blank">interesting visualizations that fit into a 280-character Tweet</a>.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/connect-highlights.html" target="_blank">R is featured in a StackOverflow case study</a> at the Microsoft Connect conference.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/chicago-water.html" target="_blank">The City of Chicago uses R to forecast water quality</a> and issue beach safety alerts.</p>
<p>A collection of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/good-practices-spreadsheets.html" target="_blank">best practices for sharing data in spreadsheets</a>, from a paper by Karl Broman and Kara Woo.</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/an-update-for-mran.html" target="_blank">MRAN website has been updated</a> with faster package search and other improvements.</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/curl-updated.html" target="_blank">curl package has been updated</a> to use the built-in winSSL library on Windows.</p>
<p>Beginner, intermediate and advanced <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/azure-learning-plans.html" target="_blank">on-line learning plans for developing AI applications on Azure</a>.</p>
<p>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/recap-earl-boston-2017.html" target="_blank">recap of the EARL conference</a> (Effective Applications of the R Language) in Boston. </p>
<p>Giora Simchoni uses R to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/slot-machine-edge.html" target="_blank">calculate the expected payout from a slot machine</a>.</p>
<p>An <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/r-excel-history.html" target="_blank">introductory R tutorial by Jesse Sadler</a> focuses on the analysis of historical documents.</p>
<p>A new RStudio cheat sheet: &quot;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/strings-in-r.html" target="_blank">Working with Strings</a>&quot;.</p>
<p>An overview of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/role-playing-with-probabilities.html" target="_blank">generating distributions in R via simulated gaming dice</a>.</p>
<p>An analysis of StackOverflow survey data <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/r-is-the-least-disliked-programming-language.html" target="_blank">ranks R and Python among the most-liked and least-disliked languages</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/2017/11/because-its-friday-trombone.html" target="_blank">Siri transcribes a trombone player</a></li>
<li>A collection of short <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/because-its-friday-chemical-reactions.html" target="_blank">videos of interesting chemical reactions</a></li>
<li>An animation shows the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/how-a-drone-impacted-flight-paths.html" target="_blank">impact of a rogue drone on Gatwick airport</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/11/because-its-friday-fake-celebrities.html" target="_blank">An AI sythesizes novel images</a> of furniture, animals, and celebritiesA</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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