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 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
