R-specific review of blog year 2011

December 28, 2011

Most popular posts

Two of the ten most popular posts during the year were completely about R:

R played a role in the other eight top ten, and many of the rest of the posts as well.

R

The R Inferno was revised in the spring. Amazingly, this blog got the world-wide scoop. Here is the advertisement.

useR!2011 inspired three posts.

There were reports on R/Finance and a LondonR meeting.

Also there was a particular post that I think is a great example of some of the power of R.

Complete review

The complete review for the year (including the soundtrack) is at “Blog year 2011 in review”.

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