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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by lightoverhead on Friday January 23, 2015 @02:59PM (#8936907)
R studio is already a very mature IDE platform for R programming. What's more can you offer than R studio?
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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by pekk on Friday January 23, 2015 @03:08PM (#8936951)
They can fold it into VS so that RStudio can be abandoned, and the premier development platform for R can be locked behind the MS paywall.
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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by lightoverhead on Friday January 23, 2015 @04:28PM (#8937390)
That's my concern as R studio is open source; VS is not! But anyway, I should applaud for this move of MS. It's a very smart move strategically. R usage is climbing the chart...
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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by smortaz on Friday January 23, 2015 @05:36PM (#8937788)
R-Studio is a wonderful IDE - kudos to their team. also, if we do this, it'll be free+oss like PTVS. VS itself isnt oss, but at least the pro/community edition is free now.
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