Conversation

Mingzhai Sun: When you use it [R], since it is written by so many authors, how do you know that the results are trustable?
Bill Venables: The R engine [...] is pretty well uniformly excellent code but you have to take my word for that. Actually, you don't. The whole engine is open source so, if you wish, you can check every line of it. If people were out to push dodgy software, this is not the way they'd go about it.
-- Mingzhai Sun and Bill Venables
R-help (January 2004) #Rstats