Dataviz and the 20th Anniversary of R, an Interview With Hadley Wickham

Catching up with the creator of ggplot and tidyr about community, Tidyverse, and what’s in store for R over the next 20 years

Will Chase
Nightingale
Published in
13 min readApr 6, 2020

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On February 29th, 2000, R 1.0.0 was released to the world. At the time, it was a niche language for statisticians; now, over 20 years later, it has grown into a fully-featured programming language that is used by millions of people and has had incalculable influence in the world of data science and…

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Will Chase
Nightingale

I’m Will, a data visualization designer and developer. Check out my work and other writing on my website williamrchase.com and follow me on Twitter @W_R_Chase