R is great mostly for the breath of plugins/implementations contributed by the community... much better than its alternative SAS for an infinitely lower price..

R is great mostly for the breath of plugins/implementations contributed by the community... much better than its alternative SAS for an infinitely lower price... ($0 vs ~$10k). Not surprised by this move from Oracle as data analytics/mining gets more popular. For R enthusiasts there is a great blog I follow http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2012/07/modeling-trick-masked-variables/ http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2012/07/modeling-trick-masked...