[R] R in Industry

[Romain Francois]

Kuhn, Max wrote:
> As someone who has (reluctantly) sent job postings to R Help, I think
> that a SIG would be a good idea.
>
> Max 
>   
Hi all,

My personnal experience also shows that it is difficult to find a job 
where R is a key component, find R related material, or find companies 
that would do commercial support for R or R consulting. (BTW, we [1] do).

A R-sig-job list has been proposed on the past, and I still think it is 
a good idea. An other point is that if it is too hard finding material 
using the regular tools (google, ...), let's just not use them, last 
week a new R-focused search engine [2] was created, let's just make sure 
it searches on the right places. Alternatively, the R wiki [3] can be 
(and is already) use to advertise for jobs [4].

[1] http://www.mango-solutions.com
[2] http://www.rseek.org
[3] http://wiki.r-project.org
[4] http://wiki.r-project.org?id=links:jobs

Cheers,

Romain

> -----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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