R is still hot, and getting hotter

It's been more than four years since I wrote the white paper R is Hot with the goal of introducing R to companies who need modern and flexible data analysis software. It's still the most-downloaded whitepaper on the Revolution Analytics website. But a lot has changed in the past four years: R's popularity has grown, and more and more companies are adopting R for various applications. 

So I decided to update the paper with the latest statistics on R usage, and even more examples of how R is used in practice. I've also included updated information on the free Revolution R Open, the supported Revolution R Plus, and the big-data capable Revolution R Enterprise. You can download the PDF for "R is Still Hot, and getting hotter" here or at the link below.

Revolution Analytics Whitepapers: R is Still Hot, and Getting Hotter

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[Alan Mainwaring]

We have massively increased our use of R through John Foxes GUI package known as R Commander (R with training wheels) we have managed to install on all student computers across all our four campuses at Deakin University in Victoria Australia R with R Commander. When a student starts up R automatically R Commander starts up. Our students are not considered to be high scorers in academic testing but yet we now have 98% of our students taking to R.
We also have audio visual files that help our students master R at a basic level its only a start, but it seems to be working. R commander is indeed R with training wheels. Thanks so much to all you wonderful people that have and still doing marvelous work on R and the packages.