[R] R-business case

[Jason Turner]

giovanni merola wrote:
> Dear all,
> I am putting together a business case for R and I would like to know if 
> there exist statistics on the distribution of R in academia, research 
> and commercial institutions. The same information about S-plus would be 
> welcome. Please reply only if you have consistent and certain information.
> 

For the usual commercial reasons, getting hard data about commercial use 
is difficult.  I've usually just listed the customers' needs 
(compatibility? particular OS/platform as standard? extensibility? 
support?), and compared the strengths and weaknesses of R vs. other apps.

Cheers

Jason