In case you missed it: June roundup

In case you missed them, here are some articles from last month of particular interest to R users.

This post announced the release of the "foreach" and "iterators" packages on CRAN, for simple scalable parallel programming in R.

This post linked to Thomas Levin's Joy-Division-esque band T-shirt made with R

This post discussed R's involvement in the Netflix Prize

This post revealed that the New York Times uses R to create graphics, including an interactive chart of Michael Jackson's musical career

This post described how to run batch jobs using R CMD BATCH

This post reviewed "Data Mashups in R", an extended example of corralling foreclosure data from various sources

This post announced a new "statistical learning web service" implemented with R

This post was one of a series of posts looking at fraud in the Iranian election (including a now-famous analysis done in R)

This post linked to a widely-reproduced R graph on gay marriage support

This post linked to free source code of many R graphs on Wikimedia Commons

This post demonstrated animation of R graphics using Flash

This post linked to a comparison of various statistical analyses done in R, SAS and SPSS

This post showed how Twitter users can "tweet" using R code

This post linked to an analysis of basketball plays done in R

This post linked to a video walkthrough and code for bagged decision trees in R

This post gave some tips, tricks and pitfalls on working with dates and time zones in R

This post brought the news that R was used in a winning entry of KDD 2009

Other non-R-specific stories in June covered Simpson's Paradox in polling data, Google Squared, real random numbers, the chances of a meteor bringing down an aircraft, amusing article titles from PubMed, and open-source user interfaces.

June was a record-breaking traffic month for the blog. The "Data Mashups" article and the discussion of the Iranian Election were highly visited. Thanks to everyone who provided comments and tips and
please keep them coming to [email protected].