[R] The future of R - Ross Ihaka stirs discussions around the web

[Albyn Jones]

There was an award session at the Vancouver JSM where both Ross Ihaka
and Robert Gentleman spoke.  The simply-start-over post sounds very
much like Ross's JSM talk.  Robert's response was much more positive -
coming from the perspective of developing BioConductor I think.  I
don't recall the details, but the cartoon version is something like "R
isn't really broken".

albyn

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:51:39PM +0200, Tal Galili wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> There is currently a (very !) lively discussions happening around the
> web, surrounding the following topics:
> 1) Is R efficient? (scripting wise, and performance wise)
> 2) Should R be written from scratch?
> 3) What should be the license of R (if it was made a new)?
> 
> Very serious people have taken part in the debates so far.  I hope to let
> you know of the places I came by, so you might be able to follow/participate
> in these (IMHO) important discussions.
> 
> The discussions started in the response for the following blog post on
> Xi'An's blog:
> http://xianblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/insane/
> Followed by the (short) response post by Ross Ihaka:
> http://xianblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/simply-start-over-and-build-something-better/
> Other discussions started to appear on Andrew Gelman's blog:
> http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010/09/ross_ihaka_to_r.html
> And (many) more responses started to appear in the hackers news website:
> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1687054
> 
> 
> I hope these discussions will have fruitful results for our community,
> Tal
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