Gilles CollingI fell in love with the R ecosystem during my PhD. Thousands of open source packages, all free. I never had to depend on Microsoft or a university license to do science. Now I write ecology packages and put them on CRAN. Independent tools for independent science. #rstats
Koantig@GillesColling
I switched from Matlab to R overnight years ago, when my simulations suddenly stopped running on the local cluster following some change in what was allowed by the licence.
I was incensed and learned enough R to translate my original scripts in a few days. Never went back.
#RStats origin stories