Hi,

On 2/8/07, Albrecht, Dr. Stefan (AZ Private Equity Partner) <
stefan.albrecht@apep.com> wrote:
>
>
> I would very much appreciate any comments on my above remarks. I know
> there has been some discussions of R vs. Matlab on R-help, but these
> could be somewhat out-dated, since both languages are evolving quite
> quickly.


If there are many people interested in working with R at your company, I
thought it might be a possibility for you to employ a programmer at your
company who is implementing what you would like to have done (maybe a nice
GUI; awhile ago, I remember there was a master's project at Rice university
to write a compiler for R, ...).
I can see many advantages of such a thing:
- Your company might save money (at least in the mid- and long run, just
have a look at the price of software licences)
- You create a (probably time-limited) job
- The whole community could benefit from those efforts (And it would be
nothing new: I think I read once an interview with Richard Hipp, the creator
of SQLite, who was paid by AOL for a while. Nevertheless, his program is in
the public domain).

Just some ideas I had when I read your email (and heard and read in the past
about licencing issues of other software in the area of statistics).

Best,
Roland

P.S. No, I am neither looking for such a job myself nor do I want to find a
job for someone I know. :-)

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