[R] R in Nature

[Simon Blomberg]

Hi all,

We've just had a paper accepted for publication in Nature. We used R for 
95% of our analyses (one of my co-authors sneaked in some GenStat when I 
wasn't looking.). The preprint is available from the Nature web site, in 
the open peer-review trial section. I searched Nature for previous 
references to "R Development Core Team", and I received no hits. So I 
tentatively conclude that our paper is the first Nature paper to cite R.

A great many thanks to the R Development Core Team for R, and Prof. 
Bates for lmer.

Cheers,

Simon.
(I'm off to the pub to celebrate.)

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