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R programming language gaining ground on traditional statistics packages |
August 20, 2014
The R programming language is quickly gaining popular ground against the traditional statistics packages such as SPSS, SAS and MATLAB, at least according to one data statistician who teaches the language.“It is very likely that during the summer of 2014, R became the most widely used analytics software for scholarly articles, ending a spectacular 16-year run by SPSS,” wrote Robert Muenchen, in a blog post summarizing his analysis.Muenchen gauged the popularity of statistical software packages by tracking how often they have been used for published scientific research and the number of mentions they get in online discussion forums, blogs, job listings and other sources.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2480920/r-programming-language-gaining-ground-on-traditional-statistics-packages.html#tk.rss_all
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