[R] R in Industry

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Feb 8, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Ben Fairbank wrote:
>  If my company
> came to depend heavily on a fairly obscure R package (as we are
> contemplating doing), what guarantee is there that it will be  
> available
> next month/year/decade?  I know of none, nor would I expect one.

I would imagine that if there was a package that really needed  
updating, then your company could hire an R programmer for a short  
time to fix whatever needs fixing, and that would be a much smaller  
expense than licensing an expensive package like those other ones out  
there.

But perhaps I am completely wrong in this, I am relatively far from  
the industry world.

Haris