Hi, On 2/8/07, Albrecht, Dr. Stefan (AZ Private Equity Partner) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. :-) [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.