How The Rise Of The "R" Computer Language Is Bringing Open Source To Science

Re:How The Rise Of The "R" Computer Language Is Bringing Ope... by vezzy-fnord on Thursday April 03, 2014 @03:39PM (#7525697)

Science has been benefiting from open source for quite a while now?

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Re:How The Rise Of The "R" Computer Language Is Bringing Ope... by aaron-lebo on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:08PM (#7526088)

In some sense science was the originator of open source in the way of "here are my findings and data, debunk or improve on them if you can".

I have to think a large part of the open source ethos comes from the academic setting at MIT and other institutions.

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Re:How The Rise Of The "R" Computer Language Is Bringing Ope... by jychang on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:05PM (#7526056)

Yeah, I'm not sure what this is saying.

Python has been the lingua franca of choice for most sciencey things for a while now.

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Re:How The Rise Of The "R" Computer Language Is Bringing Ope... by ovis on Thursday April 03, 2014 @05:30PM (#7526940)

I wish that were true. I'm sure it depends on the field, but in my experience (more physics/natural science), MATLAB still leads for interactive scientific programming. I think Python is at this point recognized as a legitimate alternative, rather than the lingua franca.

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Re:How The Rise Of The "R" Computer Language Is Bringing Ope... by dpeck on Thursday April 03, 2014 @06:22PM (#7527410)

Seems like Python has been gaining a lot of ground in areas formerly ruled by Fortran. A lot of those folks made forays into Java and Python seems like a breath of fresh air to a lot of the academics I know.

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Re:How The Rise Of The "R" Computer Language Is Bringing Ope... by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Thursday April 03, 2014 @03:45PM (#7525769)

Good hypothesis.

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