[R] History of R
Kathy Gerber
kathy at virginia.edu
Fri Feb 15 20:53:13 CET 2008
Earlier today I sent a question to Frank Harrell as an R developer with
whom I am most familiar. He suggested also that I put my questions to
the list for additional responses. Next month I'll be giving a talk on
R as an example of high quality open source software. I think there is
much to learn from R as a high quality extensible product that (at least
as far as I can tell) has never been "spun" or "hyped" like so many open
source fads.
The question that intrigues me the most is why is R as an open source
project is so incredibly successful and other projects, say for example,
Octave don't enjoy that level of success?
I have some ideas of course, but I would really like to know your
thoughts when you look at R from such a vantage point.
Thanks.
Kathy Gerber
University of Virginia
ITC - Research Computing Support
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