"... 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.
-- Just an aside: "lack of guaranteed support" -- absolutely true in theory, absolutely false in practice. I doubt that the voluntary support found on r-help and other R lists can be matched by the "guaranteed" support of any commercial software product. Not that this makes a difference to the IT group's requirements, of course... Cheers, Bert ______________________________________________ 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.