[R] R in Industry

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Matthew Keller wrote:
> Bob,
> 
> Far from flaming you, I think you made a good point - one that I
> imagine most people who use R have come across. The name "R" is a big
> impediment to effective online searches. As a check, I entered "R
> software", "SAS software", SPSS software", and "S+ software" into
> google. The R 'hit rate' was only ten out of the first 20 results (I
> didn't look any further). For the other three software packages, the
> hit rates were all 100% (20/20).
> 
> I do wonder if anything can/should be done about this. I generally
> search using the term "CRAN" but of course, that omits lots of stuff
> relevant to R. Any ideas about how to do effective online searches for
> "R" related materials?
> 
> Matt

I just googled for "R" and www.r-project.org was the first hit.  Don't 
see a problem at present.

Frank

> 
> 
> On 2/6/07, Wensui Liu <liuwensui at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been looking for job that allows me to use R/S+ since I got out
>> of graduate school 2 years ago but with no success. I am wondering if
>> there is something that can be done to promote the use of R in
>> industry.
>>
>> It's been very frustrating to see people doing statistics using
>> excel/spss and even more frustrating to see people paying $$$ for
>> something much inferior to R.
>>
>>
>> On 2/6/07, Doran, Harold <HDoran at air.org> wrote:
>>> 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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>>
>> --
>> WenSui Liu
>> A lousy statistician who happens to know a little programming
>> (http://spaces.msn.com/statcompute/blog)
>>
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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University