[R] R in Industry

[Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)]

That sounds like a good idea. The name R makes it especially hard to
find job postings, resumes or do any other type of search. Googling
resume+sas or "job opening"+sas is quick and fairly effective (less a
few airline jobs). Doing that with R is of course futile. At the risk of
getting flamed, it's too bad it's not called something more unique such
as Rpackage, Rlanguage, etc.

Cheers,
Bob

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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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