R is one of the few languages that I actually use a little bit, yet know absolutely nothing of the community and history. I mean I could tell you all about a dozen niche languages from Lisp to Haskell, but nothing of this masterpiece. Time to go read up on R :).
Any chance you could give a short little blurb for how the community is organized and works? I'm curious how different it is to Python. I also sometimes worry about the future of R where you have Python-Pandas coupled with Spyder IDE and Julia-DataFrame library with Atom-Juno as IDE as well as JuliaDB. It seems like a lot of communities are moving in on what R does best.
