I'd like to thank the developers in the Core Team for their great
work! R has become an invaluable and indispensible tool for (at least)
me, much thanks to the hard and good work of the Core Team.
--
Bjørn-Helge Mevik
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R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch maili
Permit me to echo Bjørn-Helge Mevik's thanks.
I've been telling people that R is rapidly becoming the platform
of choice for new statistical algorithm development for many reasons.
* First, it gives someone almost instant access to many of the
leading international experts in s
Some thoughts:
* As it's free (no guarantee) and 'matrix oriented' (all the details can be
accessed), R user has (sic) better control of what he's doing. In my
opinion, R is a better learning tool than others
* No doubt that the intangible asset of R is the R users and their
commitment to share hel
Even though R is free, that doesn't mean its not possible to support
it financially. There is a provision for useRs to "join" the
foundation for a very small annual fee. I stumbled on this a few
months ago and immediately joined because I think I benefit
tremendously from using R. Check out the
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Naji wrote:
Don't forget that universities have to train their students with the
softwares companies are using.
Not so. But companies have to hire the people universities teach (or
non-graduates if they can find them and train those). As a result
software companies give un
Pr. Ripley
>> Don't forget that universities have to train their students with the
>> softwares companies are using.
Right 'have' is abusive
Companies want to keep a certain continuity in their service/product.
There's a kind of inertia switching from their core software (SAS, MATLAB or
other) t
Adding a few more lines to this...
> >>>Don't forget that universities have to train their students with the
> >>>softwares companies are using.
> >
What do they use?
This may change among companies and countries.
If we go for the majority we would probably end up teaching
only Excel - and F. Har
Paulo Justiniano Ribeiro Jr wrote:
Adding a few more lines to this...
Don't forget that universities have to train their students with the
softwares companies are using.
What do they use?
This may change among companies and countries.
If we go for the majority we would probably end up teaching
on
Naji wrote:
Pr. Ripley
Don't forget that universities have to train their students with the
softwares companies are using.
Right 'have' is abusive
Companies want to keep a certain continuity in their service/product.
There's a kind of inertia switching from their core software (SAS, MATLAB or
othe
