[R] Who uses R?

Simon Blomberg s.blomberg1 at uq.edu.au
Tue Sep 25 13:09:17 CEST 2007


See the "Members and Donors" section on the left-hand side of the R web
site.

Cheers,

Simon.

Note to self: Become a supporting member.

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 11:59 +0100, Gesmann, Markus wrote:
> Dear Eleni,
> 
> Maybe the participants of the useR conferences are a good start, see
> e.g.
> http://www.r-project.org/useR-2006/participants.html
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Markus Gesmann 
> FPMA
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Eleni Rapsomaniki
> Sent: 25 September 2007 11:46
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Who uses R?
> 
> 
> Dear R users,
> 
> I have started work in a Statistics government department and I am
> trying to
> convince my bosses to install R on our computers (I can't do proper
> stats in
> Excel!!). They asked me to prove that this is a widely used software
> (and not
> just another free-source, bug infected toy I found on the web!) by
> suggesting
> other big organisations that use it. Are you aware of any reputable
> places
> (academic or not) that use R? (e.g. maybe you work for them)
> 
> I would be really grateful for any advice on this. Also suggestions on
> arguments
> I could use to persuade them that R is so much better than Excel would
> be very
> much appreciated.
> 
> Many Thanks
> Eleni Rapsomaniki
> 
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