you should wait for the article on R by fox news

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On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:19 AM, eugene dalt <eugenedalt@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I worked on some ad data before and I found NYT article very biaised and
> not far from a fraud... Anyone knows if they got money from a - company -
>  to play 'R'?
>
> Check out the title:   R U Ready for R?   Seems to me this title was stolen
> from   XLSolutions    www.xlsolutions-corp.com  and they never mentioned
> XLSolutions in the article!
>
> They mentioned commercial R....never mentioned  R-PLUS (
> www.experience-rplus.com),  nor  RSTAT (http://random-technologies-llc.com
> ).
>
> I attended Trevor's class and his comment on the article is alarming:
>
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> As a long time user of S, Splus and now R, I loved the article on R
> until I read the paragraph on how it all started.
>
> I quote:
> "According to them, the notion of devising something like R sprang up
> during a hallway conversation. They both wanted technology better
> suited for their statistics students, who needed to analyze data and
> produce graphical models of the information. Most comparable software
> had been designed by computer scientists and proved hard to use."
>
> This is grossly ungenerous to the original inventors of the wonderful S
> language underlying the R system.
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>
> I think R community should report this fraudulent article to the NYT ed
> board. It's fraud, not journalism and someone has to say it!
>
> 1- They got money for it....fine it's business as usual (unless someone
> knows someone and took some bribes). Yes... One company seems to appear many
> many times in the article...
> 2- It's a 'free' article, then it's rubish as usual.
>
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