[R] Problems in Recommending R

Rolf Turner r.turner at auckland.ac.nz
Mon Feb 2 21:16:52 CET 2009


On 2/02/2009, at 3:52 PM, Ajay ohri wrote:

> Dear List,
> One persistent feedback I am getting to people who are newly  
> introduced to R
> ( especially in this cost cutting recession)  is -
>
> 1) The website looks a bit old.
>
> While the current website does have a lot of hard work behind it,  
> should n't
> a world class statistics package have a better website instead.
>
> You can check out www.knime.org which is an open source software ,  
> and free,
> and supports R---and notice the change in perception .

I think the R website is just fine as it is.  Effort should be put into
content and not into cosmetics.  Those (potential) users who would be  
likely to
be influenced by such trivialities as the appearance of the web page  
are unlikely
to be the sort of people who would use R anyway.

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

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