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A comment on R in Ecology.

Re:R in Ecology by aurelien on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @10:26AM (#11167396)
R is good for ecology now that Microsoft own it -_-'
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Re:R in Ecology by mateo411 on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @12:35PM (#11168520)
What do you mean Microsoft owns R? It's an open source project under the GNU license.
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Re:R in Ecology by adenadel on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @01:44PM (#11169076)
Microsoft acquired Revolution Analytics

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/01/microsoft-r-open...

Edit: Just saying why the GP claimed Microsoft "owns" R, which they clearly don't.

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Re:R in Ecology by mateo411 on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @02:18PM (#11169387)
Interesting, but it looks like they have a fork of R. They package it differently, and provide some performance enhancements.
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