>-----Original Message----- >From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] >On Behalf Of Patrick Burns >Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 5:16 AM >To: r-help@r-project.org >Subject: Re: [R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata... > >I think there is a problem with the >question: Not everyone thinks of R >as a statistics program. Furthermore, >I don't think it should be thought of >as a statistics program. > >(Statistics is what stuffy professors >do, I just look at my data and try to >figure out what it means.)
Pat, Yes, I think that's why the Business Intelligence crowd prefers Analytics, Data Mining, etc. The official reason may be that it combines methods drawn from statistics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, but I suspect the marketers really want to avoid "statistics" as "that one class I barely survived". I debated what to call that page and ended up using "Analytical Software". I'm not so happy with that either. -Bob > >On 20/06/2010 23:46, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote: >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org >> [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] >>> On Behalf Of Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) >>> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 6:43 PM >>> To: Hadley Wickham; ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk >>> Cc: r-help@r-project.org >>> Subject: Re: [R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata... >>> >>> >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org >>> [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] >>>> On Behalf Of Hadley Wickham >>> ... What about snowball >>>> sampling with R-help as an initial frame? >>> >>> That's an interesting idea! I could put together a Two-item web >survey: >>> >>> 1. What stat package do you use? >>> 2. What's your main email address >> >> P.S. the email address was an attempt to keep people from "stuffing >the >> ballot box" but on the other hand, it could turn people off. I guess >the >> number of blank fields would tell us which. >> >> Also, stat package choice would have to be a "check all that apply" >> question. >> >>> >>> If they choose R, I could optionally ask what their favorite packages >>> are. I might be able to get that on a web survey this week if it >> doesn't >>> get too crazy. >>> >>> Bob >>> >>>> >>>> Hadley >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair >>>> Department of Statistics / Rice University >>>> http://had.co.nz/ >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> 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. >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > >-- >Patrick Burns >pbu...@pburns.seanet.com >http://www.burns-stat.com >(home of 'Some hints for the R beginner' >and 'The R Inferno') > >______________________________________________ >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. ______________________________________________ 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.