8/22/2019 Informative leaflet on the open-source R
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R around the world
Compiled by Easystats Ltd, the company running rapporter.net
lingua franca of data analysis and statistical computing
Number of R users, R packages and other statistics
a free software programming language and a full-blown software
environment for statistical
puting with a command-line interpreter and an active development
team and community
r since 1993. The TIOBE Programming Community Index ranks R as
the 24th most popular
gramming language around the world, just after SAS that is being
the 22nd. On the other
d, the similar Transparent Language Popularity Index ranks R as
the 14th, where SAS has
ved to be only 27th in the list. The ever increasing popularity
of R lurks in the community.
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 statsjob openings just after SAS
and SPSS.
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/
ttp://spatial.ly/2013/06/r_activity/
eferences (in order of mention)
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/
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
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