Our (financial) firm has struggled immensely with finding appropriate candidates and I believe this would be *tremendously* useful. I really hope that your suggestion is implemented. Importantly, I believe it would help create a commercial presence for R, and secondly reduce use of products like S-Plus and SAS if the commercial appeal of the software would increase. The two main drawbacks of R at our firm (as viewed by our IT dept) are lack of guaranteed support as well as the difficulty in finding candidates.
R is a great solution and I hope to see it prosper. -Tariq On 2/6/07, Kuhn, Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As someone who has (reluctantly) sent job postings to R Help, I think > that a SIG would be a good idea. > > Max > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doran, Harold > Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 2:08 PM > To: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] R in Industry > > The other day, CNN had a story on working at Google. Out of curiosity, I > went to the Google employment web site (I'm not looking, but just > curious). In perusing their job posts for statisticians, preference is > given to those who use R and python. Other languages, S-Plus and > something called SAS were listed as lower priorities. > > When I started using Python, I noted they have a portion of the web site > with job postings. CRAN does not have something similar, but think it > might be useful. I think R is becoming more widely used in industry and > I wonder if helping it move along a bit, the maintainer of CRAN could > create a section of the web site devoted to jobs where R is a > requirement. > > Hence, we could have our own little "monster.com" kind of thing going > on. Of the multitude of ways the gospel can be spread, this is small. > But, I think every small step forward is good. > > Anyone think this is useful? > > Harold > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > LEGAL NOTICE\ Unless expressly stated otherwise, this messag...{{dropped}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
