Jetpack promises simple R package management
Jetpack’s goal is to make dependency management in R as easy as it is with Ruby’s Bundler and JavaScript’s Yarn package managers
Jetpack’s goal is to make dependency management in R as easy as it is with Ruby’s Bundler and JavaScript’s Yarn package managers
Other languages on the move include R, Hack, and Rust, while Python cements its position as the king of there dynamically typed languages
Prophet is aimed specifically at business problems such as computer infrastructure capacity planning.
The knowledge-sharing framework, still in beta, is designed to bring the discipline of computer-code sharing to data analysis.
IBM will back efforts to create infrastructure and best practices for the R community, as well as promote use of the language.
As foreshadowed on Twitter yesterday, a new R Consortium of major vendors launched today aimed at "strengthen[ing] both the technical and user communities," according to a Linux Foundation announcement.