[R] R in the NY Times

[(Ted Harding)]

On 07-Jan-09 18:03:19, Erik Iverson wrote:
> I pointed a friend of mine toward the article, to which he replied: 
> 
> "I hope that they run SAS on Solaris too, god only knows how tainted
> the syscalls are in that linux freeware."
> 
> Of course, now Solaris is 'freeware', too, so I suppose that according
> to SAS, running SAS on Windows is the best way to be sure you're
> getting the right answers.

I'm not so sure about that. Since the article described R as
"a supercharged version of Microsoft's Excel", surely people
should run R on Windows and be *ab*so*lute*ly* sure of getting
the right answers (and supercharged to boot)????
Ted.

> 
> On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:56:53 -0600, Marc Schwartz
> <marc_schwartz at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I would also point out that the use of the term "freeware" as opposed
>> to
>> "FOSS" by the SAS rep, comes off as being unprofessional and
>> deliberately condescending...
>> 
>> The author of the article, to his credit, was pretty consistent in
>> using
>> open source terminology.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Marc
>> 
>> on 01/07/2009 10:26 AM Bryan Hanson wrote:
>>> I believe the SAS person shot themselves in the foot more in more
>>> ways
>> than
>>> one.  In my mind, the reason you would pay, as Frank said, for
>>>
>>>> non-peer-reviewed software with hidden implementations of analytic
>>>> methods that cannot be reproduced by others
>>>
>>> Would be so that you can sue them later when a software problem in
>>> the
>>> designing of the engine makes your plane fall out of the sky!
>> 
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