[BioC] [R] R in Industry - new SIG

[Kuhn, Max]

Sorry for the cross-post...

Please feel free to also use this special interest group for
Bioconductor-ish postings. The only requirement is that the job
description mentions the need/desire for R skills.

Max

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Kuhn, Max
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 2:03 PM
To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] R in Industry - new SIG

Martin Maechler called my bluff on this suggestion. I'm now the admin
for the new special interest group for R related job postings:

   https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-jobs 

Please send appropriate emails to this list. There are some simple rules
for postings (e.g. no attachments etc).

Max

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Kuhn, Max
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 5:10 PM
To: Doran, Harold; R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] R in Industry

As someone who has (reluctantly) sent job postings to R Help, I think
that a SIG would be a good idea.

Max 

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Doran, Harold
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 2:08 PM
To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] R in Industry

The other day, CNN had a story on working at Google. Out of curiosity, I
went to the Google employment web site (I'm not looking, but just
curious). In perusing their job posts for statisticians, preference is
given to those who use R and python. Other languages, S-Plus and
something called SAS were listed as lower priorities.

When I started using Python, I noted they have a portion of the web site
with job postings. CRAN does not have something similar, but think it
might be useful. I think R is becoming more widely used in industry and
I wonder if helping it move along a bit, the maintainer of CRAN could
create a section of the web site devoted to jobs where R is a
requirement.

Hence, we could have our own little "monster.com" kind of thing going
on. Of the multitude of ways the gospel can be spread, this is small.
But, I think every small step forward is good.

Anyone think this is useful? 

Harold


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