<p>I'm in favour of the change. We could add "statistical computing" to the site scope. Another language to add would be Stata.</p>

<p>The downside is that R questions will tend to be split between the stats.SE and SO sites. But that is happening already and our distinction of statistical questions here and programming questions on SO is rather fuzzy and almost impossible to moderate. Also, as somebody pointed out on another thread on meta, forcing people onto SO is not very friendly to newbies.</p>
