摘要：While our colleagues in the southern hemisphere are looking forward to the last weeks of the academic year and a well deserved summer break, teaching started again in the northern half of our world, and again we had a new bug-fix release of R ready to pass to students at the beginning of the semester. Coffee break talks at this summer’s conference season showed the growing popularity of R at universities very nicely to me: You start talking to people you never met before and one of the first questions is usually about each other’s research interests. Until last year I always had to explain what R is after responding “Hacking R”, because nine out of ten people at a statistics conference had never heard about it.
