On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:56:59AM -0700, Thomas Lumley wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, roger bos wrote: > >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? > > > > The other real question is "Why?". I can see the motivation of people who > want to use R and need to convince their management that it is safe, but > inflicting R on people who haven't heard of it and are perfectly happy > that way seems unnecessary. What would be the benefit?
Of course, it follows from the assumption of perfect happiness without R that there's no point in forcibly selling R to them. I suspect that the salesforces behind commercial software are not exclusively driven by such reason, however... Best regards, Jan -- +- Jan T. Kim -------------------------------------------------------+ | *NEW* email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | *NEW* WWW: http://www.cmp.uea.ac.uk/people/jtk | *-----=< hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans >=-----* ______________________________________________ [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
