RStudio IDE Easy Tricks You Might’ve Missed

I missed a few of the tricks mentioned here. Very neat indeed!

Tidy Text Mining with R

Cool text mining book.

Rmazon

This is a simple but useful package for downloading product information and reviews from Amazon.com.

Scalable R on Spark with SparkR, sparklyr and RevoScaleR

Useful tutorial here.

Interview with J.J. Allaire

Very informative interview here.

Real-World Machine Learning

I find this book very helpful. The introduction chapter is freely available.

Sparklyr

The new sparklyr package from rstudio provides a convenient interface between R/Rstudio and Spark. It runs well on Linux; it also works on Windows for Spark 1.6.2 and lower. For some reasons, it does not work with Spark 2.0 on Windows. I assume it will get fixed in subsequent releases.

LaplacesDemon is back

Looks like LaplacesDemon package is back. Now we have a pure R-based Bayesian computation platform.

Microsoft Analytics in 2016

Here is a thorough introduction of data science solution offered by Microsoft.