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Exponential growth of R’s open source community threatens commercial competitors

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Matt Asay
Apr 21, 2016

Sure, you may be a shy, introverted quant nerd, but the R community waits with open arms to receive you. And share its bounty with you. So much so, in fact, that the total number of CRAN (Comprehensive R Package Network) packages keeps mushrooming roughly exponentially as the data science elite share at a frenetic pace.
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