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Informative Leaflet On The Open-Source R

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Informative Leaflet On The Open-Source R

Some figures and facts about R that we show to our clients who might have no idea about that powerful statistical environment.

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R around the world

A key benefit of R is that it provides near-instant availability of new and experimental methods created by its user base without waiting for the development/release cycle of commercial software. SAS recognizes the value of R to our customer base, and now makes it easy for SAS users to utilize R from within the SAS environment.

SAS Product Manager, 2011

R: lingua franca of data analysis and statistical computing


R is a free software programming language and a full-blown software environment for statistical computing with a command-line interpreter and an active development team and community ever since 1993. The TIOBE Programming Community Index ranks R as the 24th most popular programming language around the world, just after SAS that is being the 22nd. On the other hand, the similar Transparent Language Popularity Index ranks R as the 14th, where SAS has proved to be only 27th in the list. The ever increasing popularity of R lurks in the community.

Number of R users, R packages and other statistics


While the core of R was developed by only two academics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, currently more than 2 millions of users enters the R console from day to day to load and use the increasing number of available user-contributed packages. Nowadays, more than 6500 R packages are available to be downloaded from CRAN (The Comprehensive R Archive Network), GitHub, R-forge and Bioconductor, that provides tens of thousands of valid, cited and often audited statistical functions in biostatistics, quantitative finance, social and natural sciences, linguistics, business analytics, machine learning, networks etc. R is a really hot topic on social networks and technical discussion boards: the traffic on the [R-help] was greater than the SAS, SPSS and Stata mailing lists all together starting from 2010, and the number of questions and bounties on StackOverflow seems to be the largest among statistical languages just like blogs and on-line articles: there are more than 450 active R blogs with weekly posts delivered to more than 15.000 regular readers all around the world . There are known to be more than 1.200 books written about R that seems to be really trending on Google Scholar too with more than 15.000 identified articles referencing it. Beside the academic usage, the business value is also increasing. For example R is the 3rd most popular in stats job openings just after SAS and SPSS.

References (in order of mention)


http://www.r-project.org/ http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html http://lang-index.sourceforge.net/#categ http://prezi.com/s1qrgfm9ko4i/the-r-ecosystem/ http://spatial.ly/2013/06/r_activity/ http://r4stats.com/articles/popularity/ http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/stats/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/r https://github.com/languages/R http://cran-logs.rstudio.com/

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