The R-Podcast Episode 1: Introduction

Here is the inaugural episode of the R-Podcast! In this episode, I take a few minutes to introduce myself and to explain the main goals of this podcast. I also define what R is and give an overview of R’s history of development and features that distinguish it from other statistical software. Please feel free to send your feedback to theRcast@gmail.com or leave a voice mail at +1-269-849-9780.

The following resources are mentioned in this episode:

• The R-Project site: https://www.r-project.org/
• Wikipedia page for R: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28programming_language%29
• Draft of manuscript “R: Past and Future History” by Ross Ihaka: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/html/interface98-paper/paper.html
• The R Project: A Brief History and Thoughts About the Future by Ross Ihaka (Massey University 2009): http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/%7Eihaka/downloads/Massey.pdf
• History of S and R presentation by John Chambers at useR! 2006: https://www.r-project.org/user-2006/Slides/Chambers.pdf
• Theme music provided by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org

Episode 1 Time Stamps

00:00 The R-Podcast #001 Introduction
00:31 Introduction
01:31 About me
05:00 Goals of the R-Podcast
08:01 What is R?
12:22 Why I am a fan of R
16:50 History of R development
24:25 About the r-podcast.org site
25:54 How to subscribe
27:34 Feedback: theRcast@gmail.com, + 1-269-849-9780
30:52 End