A competition to recommend "relevant" R packages – and the future of R
Update: the competition was just launched. * * * What is the competition about? Drew Conway and John Myles Whyte have collected data from (52) R users about the packages they have installed. The data...
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Calling R lovers and bloggers – to work together on "The R Programming wikibook"
This post is a call for both R community members and R-bloggers, to come and help make The R Programming wikibook be amazing. The R Programming wikibook is not just another one of the many free books...
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100 most read R posts for 2012 (stats from R-bloggers) – big data,...
R-bloggers.com is now three years young. The site is an (unofficial) online journal of the R statistical programming environment, written by bloggers who agreed to contribute their R articles to the...
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R 3.0.0 is released! (what's new, and how to upgrade)
A few hours ago Peter Dalgaard (of R Core Team) announced the release of R 3.0.0! Bellow you can read the changes in this release. One of the features worth noticing is the introduction of long...
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Answering "How many people use my R package?"
The question “How many people use my R package?” is a natural question that (I imagine) every R package developer asks himself at some point or another. After many years in the dark, a silver lining...
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Top 100 R packages for 2013 (Jan-May)!
What are the top 100 (most downloaded) R packages in 2013? Thanks to the recent release of RStudio of their “0-cloud” CRAN log files (but without including downloads from the primary CRAN mirror or any...
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R-bloggers: an example of how interest networks propel viral events
A guest post by Jeff Hemsley, who has co-authored with Karine Nahon a new book titled Going Viral. ————————- In Going Viral (Polity Press, 2013) we explore the topic of virality, the process of sharing...
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R-users.com: invite fellow R-users to Jobs, conferences, and R-projects
Dear R users, I am happy to officially announce a new website called R-users.com. The idea of the site is that community members will invite other R users to join them in their R projects, conferences,...
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“Why do people contribute to the R?”– concolusions from a new PNAS article
tl;dr: People contribute to R for various reasons, which evolves with time. The main reasons appear to be: “fun coding”, personal commitment to the community, interaction with like-minded and/or...
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Seeking a New Maintainer for the Popular R Package installr
TL;DR I’m seeking someone to take over maintenance of the the popular R package installr (github), due to a shift away from Windows OS. The package has been downloaded over 3.3 million times and has a...
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