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>

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@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
>
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