[R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...

[Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)]

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>On Behalf Of Patrick Burns
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>Subject: Re: [R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...
>
>I think there is a problem with the
>question:  Not everyone thinks of R
>as a statistics program.  Furthermore,
>I don't think it should be thought of
>as a statistics program.
>
>(Statistics is what stuffy professors
>do, I just look at my data and try to
>figure out what it means.)

Pat,

Yes, I think that's why the Business Intelligence crowd prefers
Analytics, Data Mining, etc. The official reason may be that it combines
methods drawn from statistics, machine learning and artificial
intelligence, but I suspect the marketers really want to avoid
"statistics" as "that one class I barely survived". I debated what to
call that page and ended up using "Analytical Software". I'm not so
happy with that either. -Bob 

>
>On 20/06/2010 23:46, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote:
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
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>>> On Behalf Of Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
>>> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 6:43 PM
>>> To: Hadley Wickham; ted.harding at manchester.ac.uk
>>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>>> Subject: Re: [R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
>>> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
>>>> On Behalf Of Hadley Wickham
>>> ...  What about snowball
>>>> sampling with R-help as an initial frame?
>>>
>>> That's an interesting idea! I could put together a Two-item web
>survey:
>>>
>>> 1. What stat package do you use?
>>> 2. What's your main email address
>>
>> P.S. the email address was an attempt to keep people from "stuffing
>the
>> ballot box" but on the other hand, it could turn people off. I guess
>the
>> number of blank fields would tell us which.
>>
>> Also, stat package choice would have to be a "check all that apply"
>> question.
>>
>>>
>>> If they choose R, I could optionally ask what their favorite
packages
>>> are. I might be able to get that on a web survey this week if it
>> doesn't
>>> get too crazy.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hadley
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
>>>> Department of Statistics / Rice University
>>>> http://had.co.nz/
>>>>
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