[R] How about a mascot for R?

[Marc Schwartz]

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 11:12 -0500, Damian Betebenner wrote:
> R users,
> 
> How come R doesn't have a mascot? Linux has one and so does LaTeX, so
> shouldn't R? I personally think that associating a "friendly face"
> with R would be a good thing for R (one letter names can be quite
> intimidating).
> 
> I apologize if this is addressed in the FAQ. I searched the FAQ as
> well as the mailing list archives and checked   
> 
> ?mascot   
> 
> but to no avail. ;-)


Well...curiously, O'Reilly has selected the Ram for the cover of an as
yet unpublished work on R for Bioinformatics:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/059600544X

What is interesting, is that the Ram (in a different pose) is already
used for the well known Perl Cookbook:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596003137


Does that mean that O'Reilly is running out of iconic animals?


Perhaps we need another graphics contest amongst the artistically
challenged useR's for a mascot? 

< Sorry Paul :-) >

Marc