Eleni, FWIW, there are a number of us in the U.S. NOAA/National Weather Service and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) (who wrote the 'Verification' package) who use R for verification of meteorological and hydrologic forecasts, aiding in the calibration of distributed hydrologic models, and in the analysis of radar estimated precipitation biases, and more…
Regards, Tom Eleni Rapsomaniki wrote: > Dear R users, > > I have started work in a Statistics government department and I am trying to > convince my bosses to install R on our computers (I can't do proper stats in > Excel!!). They asked me to prove that this is a widely used software (and not > just another free-source, bug infected toy I found on the web!) by suggesting > other big organisations that use it. Are you aware of any reputable places > (academic or not) that use R? (e.g. maybe you work for them) > > I would be really grateful for any advice on this. Also suggestions on > arguments > I could use to persuade them that R is so much better than Excel would be very > much appreciated. > > Many Thanks > Eleni Rapsomaniki > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- Thomas E Adams National Weather Service Ohio River Forecast Center 1901 South State Route 134 Wilmington, OH 45177 EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] VOICE: 937-383-0528 FAX: 937-383-0033 ______________________________________________ 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.