(This article was first published on Decision Science News » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
NEW YORK TIMES STORY ON THE APPEAL OF R
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It is no secret that Decision Science News is crazy about the R language for statistical computing. Find out why R is so great in this New York Times article. Then start to teach yourself R with our short series of video tutorials.
- Decision Science News R Video Tutorial Number 1
- Decision Science News R Video Tutorial Number 2
Addendum: Check out the hordes of R supporters in this comments of this Freakonomics blog post, correcting an assumption by Ayers that happens to be 180 degrees in the wrong direction.
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