[R] History of R

[Kevin Wright]

Kathy,

You might find some relevant reading in volume 13 of the Journal of
Statistical Software: http://www.jstatsoft.org/v13

Some of the papers have a bit of discussion on why R has become more
widely used than lisp-stat.

K Wright


On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Kathy Gerber <kathy at virginia.edu> 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
>
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