The User-Developer Spectrum in the R Ecosystem

1 · Yihui Xie · July 13, 2018, midnight
Roger Peng wrote a very thoughtful post to reflect on the evolution of the R ecosystem after his keynote at UseR! 2018. It was a great read to me (I’d rate it as the best post so far in Simply Statistics this year). In particular, the “user-developer” spectrum struck me. It didn’t surprise me, but I had never consciously thought about this notion. Clearly, the R ecosystem has been moving to the user’s end on the spectrum, and Tidyverse is an outstanding example. To understand tapply(), you have ...