Hadley Wickham, the Man Who Revolutionized R

If you don’t spend much of your time coding in the open-source statistical programming language R, his name is likely not familiar to you -- but the statistician Hadley Wickham is, in his own words, “nerd famous.” The kind of famous where people at statistics conferences line up for selfies, ask him for autographs, and are generally in awe of him. “It’s utterly utterly bizarre,” he admits. “To be famous for writing R programs? It’s just crazy.”...