[R] Revolution R and the R Community?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11/05/2010 4:03 PM, Tal Galili wrote:
> Hi Iaw (or Ivo ?!),
>
> I have seen REvolution in useR 2009.  I personally know one of the students
> they sponsored once, and have been following David Smith's (great) online
> work for over a year now.
> REvolution is real, and I hope they (and more companies like them)
> will flourish in the future.
>
> I agree with Duncan that finding the balance between open-source community
> and paid company employers can be a tricky game to play.  But it seems to me
> that REvolution (and especially David Smith), have been doing not bad at
> all.
> I hope that other R based companies, like:
>
>    - R+ <http://www.experience-rplus.com/> from XL Solutions.
>    - RStat <http://random-technologies-llc.com/products/RStat/rstat>
>    - S-PLUS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-PLUS>
>   

S-PLUS isn't a company, it's a product.  The company that currently owns 
it is Tibco Software, as the Wikipedia article mentions.  And Bill 
Dunlap of Tibco has been making valuable contributions to S and S-PLUS 
for years, and more recently to R on this mailing list.

Duncan Murdoch
> Would have acted more in a similar way.
> (And if they do, I didn't know about it and would like to have been more
> informed)
>
>
> Best,
> Tal
>
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> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:08 PM, ivo welch <ivowel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> As an end-user, I wonder about Revolution R.  Is the relationship
>> between Revolution R and the R community at-large a positive one?  Do
>> the former contribute to the development efforts of the latter?  Is
>> there a competitive aspect?  is their forum competitive with r-help?
>> any other thoughts?  (most of all, I simply hope that they help some
>> of the many helpful experts on this forum, who have volunteered their
>> expertise to help me so many times.)
>>
>> as for me, I discovered Revolution a few days ago.  they did not have
>> an OSX enterprise version, so I downloaded the community version.
>> alas, after installation, starting up their GUI interface, I
>> immediately get
>>    Error in library(Revobase) : there is no package called 'Revobase'
>> I tried to sign up for their forum, but the forum email responder
>> seems to be dead.  (I sent them an email, but have not heard back
>> yet.)  someone else here tried out their enterprise version on a linux
>> machine, but it had ugly problems in the creation of the top-level
>> Makefile.  so, my initial impression is not overwhelming.  are they
>> for real?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> /iaw
>>
>> ----
>> Ivo Welch (ivo.welch at brown.edu, ivo.welch at gmail.com)
>>
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