[vox] [fwd] R (programming language) Bay Area Users Group

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Fri Feb 20 20:42:39 PST 2009


R was also invented before the internet and it's derived from S. I think
 15+ years later they have realized it's a bit of a problem.
Also note it still requires a fortran compiler to compile.

Ale

Bill Ward wrote:
> One would think after C people would have learned that it's silly to name a
> programming language after a letter...
> 
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Seen on SF-LUG's list:
>>
>> ----- Forwarded message from Will McGinnis -----
>>
>> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:58:37 -0800
>> From: Will McGinnis
>> Subject: [sf-lug] R (programming language) Bay Area Users Group
>>
>> For those into statistics, data mining, and all that fun stuff R is
>> used in, there's a R Bay Area users group. The next meetup is March
>> 11th in SF.
>>
>> http://www.meetup.com/R-Users
>> http://dataspora.com/blog/predictive-analytics-using-r/
>>
>> I discovered it through a reddit article linking to that blog post.
>> That Predictive Analytics World sounds pretty wild, I wish i was deep
>> into this a while ago.
>>
>> ----- End forwarded message -----
>>
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