On 6 May 2013 02:00, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thursday, May 2, 2013 1:27:30 PM UTC-7, William wrote: >> >> Hi Sage-Developers, >> >> There is a big series of small books about R that Springer publishes: >> >> http://www.springer.com/series/6991?detailsPage=titles >> >> The editorial director of that series at Springer just talked with me >> on the phone for a while, and he says these are among "Springers best >> selling books"; moreover, he believes they have a major impact on >> making R a really viable platform for computational statistics. >> >> > Am I the only one who finds this implausible? > Here's an article on R > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?pagewanted=all > and it doesn't mention Springer.
No, you are not the only one to find it implausible - I was suspicious of that claim the minute I read it. Then I looked at the link William gave. The earilest of that series appears to be published in 2012, but R has been popular and viable for a very long time - well before 2012. Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
