From lab to libre software: how can academic software research become open source?

Posted Oct 25, 2017 19:49 UTC (Wed) by thomas.poulsen (subscriber, #22480)
Parent article: From lab to libre software: how can academic software research become open source?

As mentioned in the article, the R-project (aka GNU S) has fostered a community around free software for statistical computing. A lot of that gets published in the Journal of Statistical Software as a way to get (academic) credit for software development in this field.

R-project is not an example

Posted Oct 26, 2017 16:40 UTC (Thu) by southey (guest, #9466) [Link]

R-project is just an open source port of S/S+: "R can be considered as a different implementation of S" where S is the S programming language developed by Bell Labs. This resulted in most of the S/S+ community moving to R.