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 ----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
