Snowdoop

This looks promising.

Great R packages for data import, wrangling & visualization

Nice summary of useful R packages, a few of which are unfamiliar to me before.

How to get your very own RStudio Server and Shiny Server with DigitalOcean

Very useful introduction.

JetBrains development tools are free for academic users

This is definitely a good news. I have been using the free community version of the python development tool and now they have a new tool for C++.

Running Spark on R with SparkR

This may be helpful.

Texts, a visual markdown editor

Finally Texts includes the bibliography capability. Now it is a lightweight but complete writing environment for academics.

Scraping web pages

I find the following resources useful:

1. Scraping Web Pages With R
2. Log File Analysis with R
3. How to read HTML tables with htmltab()
4. Rvest package vignettes
5. Web Scraping with R
6. rvest Introduction
7. Using rvest to Scrape an HTML Table
8. Scrape website data with the new R package rvest

World Happiness Report

This one looks interesting.

GCC 5.1 is out

This is huge.