Editor’s Note: This post has been cross-posted on Dirk Eddelbuettel’s website and on the rvw R package’s GitHub page. The post was originally written by Ivan Pavlov, who worked on the project during Google Summer of Code (GSOC) 2018. Release Notes Today Dirk Eddelbuettel, James Balamuta and Ivan Pavlov are happy to announce the first release of a reworked R interface to the Vowpal Wabbit machine learning system. Started as a GSoC 2018 project, the new rvw package was built to give R users easier access to a variety of efficient machine learning …