[Rd] R mentioned in Computerworld

[Douglas Bates]

Martin Schulze reported in Debian Weekly News

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Debian Weekly News
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2004/03/
Debian Weekly News - January 20th, 2004
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

...

Debian used for Data Mining in Business. Rodney Gedda [21]reported in
Computerworld about the use of Debian by [22]Commonwealth Scientific
and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia. Principal
computer scientist for enterprise data mining, Dr. Graham Williams,
stated that CSIRO uses a number of toolkits including R, GNOME, and
Python scripting, running on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.
"The Department of Health and Ageing has a 200 CPU cluster running
Debian GNU/Linux", Williams said. "Debian is a stable server operating
system that is easy to maintain and we also use it on desktops."

 21. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=351192284
 22. http://www.csiro.au/index.asp