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The Power of the R Programming Language

Posted by samzenpus on from the much-better-than-Q dept.

BartlebyScrivener writes "The New York Times has an article on the R programming language. The Times describes it as: '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 Hotels Group and Shell use it.'"

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  1. What's a pirate's favorite programming language? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    R!

  2. Well... by Weaselmancer · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...if at first you don't succeed, then skydiving is not for you.

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    rediculous.
  3. Re:r-project.org by DahGhostfacedFiddlah · · Score: 5, Funny

    the libraries available for doing such analysis are unparalleled.

    With multi-core processors becoming more and more prevalent, R's developers should remedy this as soon as possible.

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  4. Re:Only for certain kind of analyst... by PachmanP · · Score: 5, Funny

    So we can the financial crisis on idiots who don't understand that GIGO applies in EVERY computer language?

    No, but we can the dropping of verbs on idiots who don't understand that they apply to EVERY sentence!

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  5. Re:Based on S by digitig · · Score: 5, Funny

    It could be worse. Try searching for the natural language processing system "Lolita".

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