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adding link to kafka blog

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 In a recent interview with the R Consortium, [Andreas Neudecker](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-neudecker-457946208/), solution architect at INWT, a data and analytics company located in Berlin, Germany, shared insights into the motivation behind developing an Apache Kafka client for R and the challenges it aims to address within the R ecosystem. His company frequently builds models in both R and Python, often encountering the need for real-time data analytics from Kafka clusters. When a real-time fraud detection project required connecting to a Kafka cluster, the lack of a stable Kafka client for R forced them to switch to Python despite having an R-based model ready to go. This experience highlighted the gap in R's real-time data processing capabilities. It inspired Andreas to develop a Kafka client for R, making it easier to access real-time data sources and potentially leveling the playing field with Python. 
 
+To get started using kafka right away, please reference this article by Andreas titled "[Introducing the kafka R Package](https://www.inwt-statistics.com/blog/r-package-kafka)," which covers an example to demonstrate how kafka works.
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 GitHub repository: [https://github.com/INWTlab/r-kafka](https://github.com/INWTlab/r-kafka)
 
 Installation from GitHub: