Based partly on interviews with members of the R Core team, this paper considers the development of the R Project in the context of open-source software development and, more generally, voluntary activities. The paper describes aspects of the social organization of the R Project, including the organization of the R Core team; describes the trajectory of the R Project; seeks to identify factors crucial to the success of R; and speculates about the prospects for R.
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Fox, "Aspects of the Social Organization and Trajectory of the R Project", The R Journal, 2009
BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2009-014,
author = {Fox, John},
title = {Aspects of the Social Organization and Trajectory of the R Project},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2009},
note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2009-014},
doi = {10.32614/RJ-2009-014},
volume = {1},
issue = {2},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {5-13}
}