R help - Oct 2013 - R vs octave development strategy (and success)

Hi All,

if memory serves me well I recall some paper comparing the relative success in
getting mainstream acceptance (as mainstream as statistics can be) of both R and
Octave.  I remember vaguely that the fact the development strategies (core team
vs one main developer) played a major role in the relative success of the two
programs.  I tried to find this paper, but my goggle skills are failing me. 
Would anyone know where to find it?

Best

F
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 881 bytes
Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
URL:
<https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20131029/330ac429/attachment.bin>

This covers the topic you mention, but from the perspective of
the role of the R Core team. The point about Octave is a single
sentence/footnote:

Fox, John. 2009. Aspects of the Social Organization and
Trajectory of the R Project. The R Journal 1/2: 5-13.

http://rjournal.github.io/archive/2009-2/RJournal_2009-2_Fox.pdf

-------------------------------------
David L Carlson
Department of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77840-4352

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
[mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Federico
Calboli
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 11:22 AM
To: r-help
Subject: [R] R vs octave development strategy (and success)

Hi All,

if memory serves me well I recall some paper comparing the
relative success in getting mainstream acceptance (as mainstream
as statistics can be) of both R and Octave.  I remember vaguely
that the fact the development strategies (core team vs one main
developer) played a major role in the relative success of the
two programs.  I tried to find this paper, but my goggle skills
are failing me.  Would anyone know where to find it?

Best

F