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R is fastest growing topic on Stack Overflow

December 22, 2015 By editor

top Stack Overflow tags from 2008 to 2015

Joshua Kunst has analysed Stack Overflow postings and found that R is currently the fastest growing topic.

Stack Overflow is a question and answer site popular with software developers. Questions are tagged with topics and these topics formed the basis of the analysis.

Kunst used R to perform the analysis and he provides a walk-through—making extensive use of the pipeline operator from the magrittr package to create readable functional code. His post is worth reading if you are familiar with, or are learning, R.

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