[R] R in Industry

[Patrick Connolly]

On Wed, 07-Feb-2007 at 07:07PM +1100, Jim Lemon wrote:

|> Matthew Keller wrote:
|>  > 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?
|>  >
|> Try "r stats". I get 18/20 on Google with that.

Not bad, but the original question was about R related employment.
Trying "R jobs" or "R employment" comes up with Hungarian girls
looking for a job in Cork (I think the letter 'r' in 'Cork' that had
that one show up) and somewhat further down the list comes a question
about jobs that take a long time running MCMC using R in ESS.  And
somewhat further still before there's an R-help archive where someone
asked a similar question to what started this thread.  Not a lot of
use.

Trouble is now I've clicked on some of those, they'll rate higher on
Google's ranking so I'm perpetuating the problem.

Did anyone think of a search string that wasn't useless?


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