Hello Dne Po 13. září 2010 14:51:39 Tal Galili napsal(a):
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
I'm not computer expert so I do not know if it is easyer to fix all bugs in R or start from scratch. But starting from zero is VERY difficult. Those, who know Linux little bit will propably remember example of KDE4. Very hard, paniful and after almost 3 years still not fully fixed. Another problem is keeping compatibility with thousands of contributed modules and scripts. Yes, it is very important part of R ecosystem. For licence I like GPL v.3, and also any licence accpeted by Free Software Foundation is good. :-) But here, I wish point out one issue, which can be fixed relatively easily: R would deserve much more better web running some good open-source CMS. I have very good experince with Drupal (IMHO the best available CMS) and Plone. Current state is one big dissaster. Web with all modern features, user forum and so on. It would be really helpful.
Best regards, -- Vojtěch Zeisek Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles Uni., Prague, CZ Institute of Botany, Academy of Science, Czech Republic Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.natur.cuni.cz/faculty-en?set_language=en http://www.ibot.cas.cz/?p=index&site=en http://www.opensuse.org/ http://web.natur.cuni.cz/~zeisek/
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