While perhaps 90% of the company’s engineers work on R now, Allaire estimates that might be around 75% in three years or so.īut while the company plans to keep a majority of its development work R-related in the short term, it no longer wants to be known by the name of its first product, the RStudio IDE.

In 2020, RStudio announced it had reorganized as a public benefit corporation, allowing it to consider the needs of the broader user community when making decisions instead of having the legal responsibility to focus on maximizing shareholder value. “I think there is an opportunity to impact the practice of science more broadly,” Allaire said.Ībout 40% of the company’s engineers work full time on open source software - a total of 43, he said, not counting employees who work on open source but not 100% of their time. Instead, Allaire said they believe they’ve found a model that can reliably fund open source software with revenues from related commercial products, one that’s “sustainable and not growth at all costs” - the latter being something Allaire told conference attendees can cause a company to drift away from its initial mission. ' I'll learn a little bit about Python but I'm not going to s top writing R code.'

“We’re not pivoting from R to Python,” Wickham said. Allaire stressed that the name change doesn’t signify a shift away from R or a belief that Python is somehow supplanting R for data science, as some argue on social media and elsewhere. However, both Wickham and company founder and CEO J.J.

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