- Alvaro Galindo reviews Social Media Mining with R by by Nathan Danneman and Richard Heinmann.
- Some popular articles on R tip and tricks are: R has some sharp corners by Win-Vector LLC, Sample uniformly within a fixed radius by Forester (Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities), The Birthday Simulation by Wes Stevenson, and didYouMean() Function: Using Google to correct errors in Strings by Sam Weiss.
- R bloggers compiles a list of R related positions for those who are on the job market.
- Xi’an discusses a special issue Statistical Science named Big Bayes Stories: A Collection of Vignettes.
- Last week, we featured an article on R vs. Julia. This week, Matloff (aka Mad (Data) Scientist) writes another comparison called R beats Python! R beats Julia! Anyone else wanna challenge R?