I've been looking for job that allows me to use R/S+ since I got out of graduate school 2 years ago but with no success. I am wondering if there is something that can be done to promote the use of R in industry.
It's been very frustrating to see people doing statistics using excel/spss and even more frustrating to see people paying $$$ for something much inferior to R. On 2/6/07, Doran, Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- WenSui Liu A lousy statistician who happens to know a little programming (http://spaces.msn.com/statcompute/blog) ______________________________________________ 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.
