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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.

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.