InformationWeek on Low-Cost Statistical Software

Doug Herschel of InformationWeek published an article looking at low-cost alternatives to legacy statistical software, including SAS. The second page of the article looks at the growth of R, and the offerings of Revolution Analytics:

Doug Herschel of InformationWeek published an article looking at low-cost alternatives to legacy statistical software, including SAS. The second page of the article looks at the growth of R, and the offerings of Revolution Analytics:

Four-year-old Revolution Analytics provides commercial support for the R programming language as well as tools, integration, consulting and training aimed at making an open-source product enterprise ready.

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