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Microsoft and the R(evolution)

Microsoft and the R(evolution)

Over the last few years Microsoft have been building infrastructure to support the R language within a number of tools, technologies and platforms. Microsoft R Open Initially distributed by Revolution as Revolution R Open and after acquisition in 2015 the free to own and distribute version of R was rebranded Microsoft R Open. The current release is based on R-3.3.3 (with new distributions coming out a month following the CRAN version update). In addition to the total compatibility with the…

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The Age of the Connected Scientist.

The Age of the Connected Scientist.

Paper, Paper everywhere as far as the eye can see. When I first started working in a lab fresh out of university everything was recorded in paper notebooks (OK I might be dating myself here). At the end of each day we wrote up the days experiment, pasted in printouts from balances, signed across the printout and the page (to ensure that the printout was not tampered with) and signed the bottom of each page. At the end of the week…

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