R: simply start over and build something better

One interesting comment:

Avram Says:
September 13, 2010 at 10:21 pm

I have been (and remain) a long-time R user and fan. Lately, however, I find myself learning/using Clojure (clojure.org) with Incanter (http://incanter.org/).

The main reasons for this are (1) memory issues for big data using R, (2) the paradigm of a language deeply rooted in functional programming, (3) concurrency, (4) Java-interoperability as Clojure runs on the JVM, and (5) immediate use of the vast number of incredible Java libraries available (e.g. hadoop, mahout, weka, etc…), to name a few.

I would be very curious as to how Ross and others view Clojure in the space of the future of statistical programming.

Many thanks.

Reply