[R] commercial usage

[Thomas Lumley]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, srinivasa raghavan wrote:

> Hi
>
>  I am new user of R. I came to know it is a GNU
> General public License software like Linux. Does any
> one know of literature evidence of 'R'( not S-plus)
> usage for Commercial purposes or R being used by any
> Government organisation.
>

Well, commercial and government organisations tend not to leave as much
literature evidence of what they are using.

However:
 1) The division of mathematical and information sciences of the
Australian government research organisation CSIRO clearly makes
some use of R since they have published an R package.

 2) The proceedings of the DSC 2001 conference, linked from the
`Publications' page at the R homepage show that R is used (as well as
being partly developed) at Bell Labs.

 3) Questions on the R mailing list and bug submissions suggest that it is
used at a number of corporations, eg Merck and Pfizer, but we don't know
how much or by how many people.

 4) The website http://www.medepi.org shows that the San Francisco
Department of Public Health uses R.

I know of other uses, but I don't know of literature evidence of them.

	-thomas


Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle

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