[R] pointer to comments re Paul Murrell's new book, R, & SAS on Andrew Gelman's blog

[Douglas Bates]

Tony Plate wrote:
> There are some interesting comments re Paul Murrell's new book, R, & SAS 
> on Andrew Gelman's blog:
> 
> http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2005/04/a_new_book_on_r.html 

I found the comments quite interesting.  I also find it somewhat amusing 
when people speculate on what is necessary "if R truly wanted to compete 
in that space".  R doesn't "compete" with commercial software.  As our 
co-founder and resident sage, Ross Ihaka, characterizes our approach, 
"We have a simple 'marketing strategy' - we put the software out there 
for you to use.  If you decide to use it, that's great.  If not, that's 
ok too."