In case you missed it: July 2017 roundup

In case you missed them, here are some articles from July of particular interest to R users. A tutorial on using the rsparkling package to apply H20's algorithms to data in HDInsight. Several exercises to learn parallel programming with the foreach package. SQL Server 2017, with many new R-related capabilities, is nearing release. Ali Zaidi on using neural embeddings with R and Spark to analyze Github comments.