R News From JSM 2015
by Joseph Rickert
We can declare 2015 the year that R went mainstream at the JSM. There is no doubt about it, the calculations, visualizations and deep thinking of a great many of the world's statisticians are rendered or expressed in R and the JSM is with the program. In 2013 I was happy to have stumbled into a talk where an FDA statistician confirmed that R was indeed a much used and trusted tool. Last year, while preparing to attend the conference, I was delighted to find a substantial list of R and data science related talks. This year, talks not only mentioned R: they were about R.