Update: the competition was just launched.
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What is the competition about?
Drew Conway and John Myles Whyte have collected data from (52) R users about the packages they have installed. The data is now available on github for download and the contest will be run on the kaggle platform.
For more details, head over to dataists.
And for fun, here is the dependency graph for R packages they have assembled so far:
A tiny bit more on R bloggers virality
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