I know on the website there are some pretty reputable sponsors of the software who at some stage donated some (presumably significant) amount of money out of thankfulness because some project worked and the software helped in some way.
In order to push however the use of that software, might it not be just simply possible to start producing a List of corporate projects where the software was used with someone in the hierarchy saying: 1. It helped the project (we managed to reduce the complexity, it was more stable, flexible, ...) 2. We saved costs 3. The project actually was worth doing and wasn't just pasttime of an employee who just hasn't realized that he is in a company now, and not messing around at Uni Maybe also include cases where it didn't work 1. Key personel left the project, nobody to pick up the left stuff 2. Found out that it was the wrong tool (missing features, too complex, ...) And the moment one has a list including a couple of cases, ideally also a case similar to the stuff one wants to do, one can move onwards in ones own company: 'Our competitor / customer / great admired idol is doing it, why don't we ?' Chances are that such a list already has been started somewhere, it just hasn't been linked properly. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-do-I-get-my-IT-department-to-%22bless%22-R--tp21739359p21856976.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.