On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Kevin R. Coombes wrote:
Hi,
I got the following comment from the reviewer of a paper (describing an
algorithm implemented in R) that I submitted to BMC Bioinformatics:
"Finally, which useful for exploratory work and some prototyping, neither R
nor S-Plus are appropriate environments for deploying user applications that
would receive much use."
The reviewer needs to get out more...
"Intel Capital has placed the number of R users at 1 million, and
Revolution kicks the estimate all the way up to 2 million."
from the New York Times Business Innovation Technology Blog
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/r-you-ready-for-r/
which follows up on this article
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html
in their printed paper. Did the reviewer notice where that article said:
"Companies as diverse as Google, Pfizer, Merck, Bank of America, the
InterContinental Hotels Group and Shell use it."
???
<sarcasm>
Yeah, Google and those other companies just don't have much ken
for muscular computing. ;-)
</sarcasm>
<more sarcasm>
Maybe you should retool in Visual Basic.
</more sarcasm>
HTH,
Chuck
I can certainly respond by pointing out that CRAN contains more than 2000
packages and Bioconductor contains more than 350. However, does anyone have
statistics on how often R (and possibly some R packages) are downloaded, or
on how many people actually use R?
Thanks,
Kevin
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