R in the New York Times

Courtesy Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog  Tue, 01/06/2009 - 21:45

The New York Time says Data Analysts Captivated by Power of R .

R is ... the name of a popular programming language used by a growing number of data analysts inside corporations and academia.

It is becoming their lingua franca partly because data mining has entered a golden age, whether being used to set ad prices, find new drugs more quickly or fine-tune financial models.

Companies as diverse as Google, Pfizer, Merck, Bank of America, the InterContinental...

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