Our (financial) firm has struggled immensely with finding appropriate
candidates and I believe this would be *tremendously* useful. I really hope
that your suggestion is implemented. Importantly, I believe it would help
create a commercial presence for R, and secondly reduce use of products like
S-Plus and SAS if the commercial appeal of the software would increase. The
two main drawbacks of R at our firm (as viewed by our IT dept) are lack of
guaranteed support as well as the difficulty in finding candidates.

R is a great solution and I hope to see it prosper.

-Tariq

On 2/6/07, Kuhn, Max <Max.Kuhn@pfizer.com> wrote:
>
> As someone who has (reluctantly) sent job postings to R Help, I think
> that a SIG would be a good idea.
>
> Max
>
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Doran, Harold
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> 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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