R, Matey: Hoisting the Sails for a Programming Language | Linux Today

R, Matey: Hoisting the Sails for a Programming Language

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Christine Hall
Jul 1, 2015

Our friends at the Linux Foundation yesterday set sail with the formation of the R Consortium, which includes such notorious pirates…um, I mean, notable companies as Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Google and Microsoft, along with the other founders like Alteryx, Mango Solutions, Tibco Software, and we won’t be sailin??? without our mateys at, wait for it, RStudio. Of course, when you read that last one, you read it as Arrrrrr Studio, right? Right?

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Christine Hall

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