Thanks for the corrections Duncan, I didn't know about Bill Dunlap affiliation with Tibco.
Best, Tal ----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 11/05/2010 4:03 PM, Tal Galili wrote: > >> Hi Iaw (or Ivo ?!), >> >> I have seen REvolution in useR 2009. I personally know one of the >> students >> they sponsored once, and have been following David Smith's (great) online >> work for over a year now. >> REvolution is real, and I hope they (and more companies like them) >> will flourish in the future. >> >> I agree with Duncan that finding the balance between open-source community >> and paid company employers can be a tricky game to play. But it seems to >> me >> that REvolution (and especially David Smith), have been doing not bad at >> all. >> I hope that other R based companies, like: >> >> - R+ <http://www.experience-rplus.com/> from XL Solutions. >> - RStat <http://random-technologies-llc.com/products/RStat/rstat> >> - S-PLUS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-PLUS> >> >> > > S-PLUS isn't a company, it's a product. The company that currently owns it > is Tibco Software, as the Wikipedia article mentions. And Bill Dunlap of > Tibco has been making valuable contributions to S and S-PLUS for years, and > more recently to R on this mailing list. > > Duncan Murdoch > >> Would have acted more in a similar way. >> (And if they do, I didn't know about it and would like to have been more >> informed) >> >> >> Best, >> Tal >> >> >> >> ----------------Contact >> Details:------------------------------------------------------- >> Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 >> Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | >> www.r-statistics.com (English) >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:08 PM, ivo welch <ivo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> As an end-user, I wonder about Revolution R. Is the relationship >>> between Revolution R and the R community at-large a positive one? Do >>> the former contribute to the development efforts of the latter? Is >>> there a competitive aspect? is their forum competitive with r-help? >>> any other thoughts? (most of all, I simply hope that they help some >>> of the many helpful experts on this forum, who have volunteered their >>> expertise to help me so many times.) >>> >>> as for me, I discovered Revolution a few days ago. they did not have >>> an OSX enterprise version, so I downloaded the community version. >>> alas, after installation, starting up their GUI interface, I >>> immediately get >>> Error in library(Revobase) : there is no package called 'Revobase' >>> I tried to sign up for their forum, but the forum email responder >>> seems to be dead. (I sent them an email, but have not heard back >>> yet.) someone else here tried out their enterprise version on a linux >>> machine, but it had ugly problems in the creation of the top-level >>> Makefile. so, my initial impression is not overwhelming. are they >>> for real? >>> >>> regards, >>> >>> /iaw >>> >>> ---- >>> Ivo Welch (ivo.we...@brown.edu, ivo.we...@gmail.com) >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>> >>> >>> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
