On the 30th June (2015) a number of companies came together to form the R Consortium. The aim of the R Consortium is to support the R community and to help it evolve.
In a way the formation of this group is not surprising as there is a growing list of companies who have their own support implementation of R that provides a number of additional and very important features. Most of these features evolve around making R more useable within applications and for easier production deployment.
Founding companies and organizations of the R Consortium include The R Foundation, Platinum members Microsoft and RStudio; Gold member TIBCO Software Inc.; and Silver members Alteryx, Google, HP, Mango Solutions, Ketchum Trading and Oracle.
It is important to note about this group is that they won't be looking at the R language but will be looking at the infrastructure that supports R.
The big boys are now onboard and promoting R and it will be interesting to see what directions they will come up with.
This is something worth keeping an eye on.
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