[R] R in Industry

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Frank" == Frank E Harrell <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu>
>>>>>     on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:59:45 -0600 writes:

    Frank> Matthew Keller wrote:
    >> Bob,
    >> 
    >> Far from flaming you, I think you made a good point - one
    >> that I imagine most people who use R have come
    >> across. The name "R" is a big impediment to effective
    >> online searches. As a check, I entered "R software", "SAS
    >> software", SPSS software", and "S+ software" into
    >> google. The R 'hit rate' was only ten out of the first 20
    >> results (I didn't look any further). For the other three
    >> software packages, the hit rates were all 100% (20/20).
    >> 
    >> I do wonder if anything can/should be done about this. I
    >> generally search using the term "CRAN" but of course,
    >> that omits lots of stuff relevant to R. Any ideas about
    >> how to do effective online searches for "R" related
    >> materials?

I don't think we (the R foundation) will ever change away from
"R"..

    >> 
    >> Matt

    Frank> I just googled for "R" and www.r-project.org was the
    Frank> first hit.  Don't see a problem at present.

We are getting really off-topic, but that's interesting:

We all know that Google is helping the Chinese government to
censor their own people, so searches there can lead to
completely different results.  But even here in Zurich
Switzerland, I get quite a different hitlist :

 1) stat.ethz.ch/~statsoft/stat.programme/R.html [in German]

 2) Our local CRAN mirror:  stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/

 3) R - (German-language) Wikipedia about letter "R": de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R

 4) DVD-R - (German-language) Wikipedia  de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-R

 5) The R Project for Statistical Computing http://www.r-project.org/

So 3/5 are related to R which sounds good, but actually these 3
are all from the first twenty: 3/20.

Martin


    >> On 2/6/07, Wensui Liu <liuwensui at gmail.com> wrote:
    >>> I've been looking for job that allows me to use R/S+
    >>> since I got out of graduate school 2 years ago but with
    >>> no success. I am wondering if there is something that
    >>> can be done to promote the use of R in industry.
    >>> 
    >>> It's been very frustrating to see people doing
    >>> statistics using excel/spss and even more frustrating to
    >>> see people paying $$$ for something much inferior to R.
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> On 2/6/07, Doran, Harold <HDoran at air.org> wrote:
    >>>> The other day, CNN had a story on working at
    >>>> Google. Out of curiosity, I went to the Google
    >>>> employment web site (I'm not looking, but just
    >>>> curious). In perusing their job posts for
    >>>> statisticians, preference is given to those who use R
    >>>> and python. Other languages, S-Plus and something
    >>>> called SAS were listed as lower priorities.
    >>>> 
    >>>> When I started using Python, I noted they have a
    >>>> portion of the web site with job postings. CRAN does
    >>>> not have something similar, but think it might be
    >>>> useful. I think R is becoming more widely used in
    >>>> industry and I wonder if helping it move along a bit,
    >>>> the maintainer of CRAN could create a section of the
    >>>> web site devoted to jobs where R is a requirement.
    >>>> 
    >>>> Hence, we could have our own little "monster.com" kind
    >>>> of thing going on. Of the multitude of ways the gospel
    >>>> can be spread, this is small.  But, I think every small
    >>>> step forward is good.
    >>>> 
    >>>> Anyone think this is useful?
    >>>> 
    >>>> Harold
    >>>> 
    >>>> 
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    >>> 
    >>> --
    >>> WenSui Liu A lousy statistician who happens to know a
    >>> little programming
    >>> (http://spaces.msn.com/statcompute/blog)
    >>> 
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    >>


    Frank> -- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of
    Frank> Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt
    Frank> University

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    Frank> reproducible code.