Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tony Plate wrote: > > There are some interesting comments re Paul Murrell's new book, R, & > > SAS on Andrew Gelman's blog: > > http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2005/04/a_new_book_on_r.html > > I found the comments quite interesting. I also find it somewhat > amusing when people speculate on what is necessary "if R truly wanted > to compete in that space". R doesn't "compete" with commercial > software. As our co-founder and resident sage, Ross Ihaka, > characterizes our approach, "We have a simple 'marketing strategy' - > we put the software out there for you to use. If you decide to use > it, that's great. If not, that's ok too."
Just to prevent misattribution: Notice that this is from the comments *to* Andrew Gelman's note, not comments *by* A.G. (And at least some of us do think about the market requirements from time to time. I agree with Ross that we can afford to try to do it right rather than be driven by marketing, though.) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
