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Good Times With R

Jan 08, 2009

The New York Times discusses the growing popularity of the programming language R. The article says the open source program has taken off because people without programming backgrounds find it easy to use, plus it's free. "The great beauty of R is that you can modify it to do all sorts of things," the chief economist at Google, Hal Varian, tells the Times. At his blog, Thomas Mailund adds, "Together with Python and C++ it is one of my favorite languages and I have been using it almost daily for the last four-five years."

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