Thank you all for the replies. I've used R and latex in graduate school and absolultely love them. After getting in the industry, everyone is using MS products or SPSS/SAS. But in term of quality, there is no comparison between MS word and Latex or between SAS/SPSS and R.
On Apr 6, 2005 2:35 PM, roger bos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have S+ at our company, but I choose to use R because I like it. > There are two observations I have. One is that many people in IT > don't seem to like open source software that much because either they > don't trust it or they say there is no one who stands behind it. > Second, equally important point, is that there is no R salesforce > marking the product to companies. Commercial products have marketing > budgets and aggresive salespeople who contact potential purchasers. > Insightful will come in and give a company presentation. Who wants to > volunteer to come into my company and demo R for my manager? I only > learned about R a year ago when a friend of mine told me about it. > The real question is, how to get more exposuRe? > > Thanks, > > Roger > On Apr 6, 2005 2:09 PM, Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 11:38 -0400, Wensui Liu wrote: > > > Latex and R are really cool stuff. I am just wondering how they are > > > used in industry. But based on my own experience, very rare. Why? > > > > > > How about the opinion of other listers? Thanks. > > > > As Tony has referenced, the answer will depend upon what industry you > > are referring to. > > > > There is an article in R News (2004 Vol 4 Number 1) that you might find > > of interest entitled "The Decision to Use R" from a small medical > > consulting business perspective: > > > > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2004-1.pdf > > > > There is a persistent rumor of a similar article from a large corporate > > medical industry environment that is due "real soon now"... ;-) > > > > You might also want to search the r-help archives as there have been > > some fairly "lively" discussions on this in the recent past, especially > > in healthcare applications when a certain other Statistical Analysis > > System is referenced as being the perceived standard... > > > > HTH, > > > > Marc > > > > > library(fortunes) > > > fortune("Schwartz") > > > > I use R. My company benefits from it. My clients benefit from it. > > ...and I sleep just fine (when I do sleep)... :-) > > -- Marc Schwartz, Medanalytics (about the `costs' of free software) > > R-help (June 2004) > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > -- WenSui Liu, MS MA Senior Decision Support Analyst Division of Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
