Hi Kathy, maybe this article could be also of use for you? Ihaka, R., and Gentleman, R. (1996)," R: A Language for Data Analysis and Graphics," The Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 5, 299-314
Best, Roland Kathy Gerber wrote: > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
