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I would welcome a replacement for R just because the new language's name might be easier to google. I hope they don't call it Q.


BTW, that was my motivation for starting the www.r-bloggers.com website. It now has over 110 bloggers (who write about R) there. When I started and looked for them on google, all I could find was bloggers who wrote about pirates :D


Google thought R = Arrrgghh? Lol...


Yes, please! It seems nowadays one of the most important feature in a name is to be unique from the point of view of Google. :)

(incidentally, if you are a mpaa operative, call your blockbusters with just one very generic name... a lot easier than suing half the world, and just as annoying ;) )


There is actually rseek.org just for this purpose.


The top five links for "R" are all the right ones. Google seems to have you covered.



google: r statistics foo




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