>>>>> "Frank" == Frank E Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:59:45 -0600 writes:
Frank> Matthew Keller wrote: >> Bob, >> >> Far from flaming you, I think you made a good point - one >> that I imagine most people who use R have come >> across. The name "R" is a big impediment to effective >> online searches. As a check, I entered "R software", "SAS >> software", SPSS software", and "S+ software" into >> google. The R 'hit rate' was only ten out of the first 20 >> results (I didn't look any further). For the other three >> software packages, the hit rates were all 100% (20/20). >> >> I do wonder if anything can/should be done about this. I >> generally search using the term "CRAN" but of course, >> that omits lots of stuff relevant to R. Any ideas about >> how to do effective online searches for "R" related >> materials? I don't think we (the R foundation) will ever change away from "R".. >> >> Matt Frank> I just googled for "R" and www.r-project.org was the Frank> first hit. Don't see a problem at present. We are getting really off-topic, but that's interesting: We all know that Google is helping the Chinese government to censor their own people, so searches there can lead to completely different results. But even here in Zurich Switzerland, I get quite a different hitlist : 1) stat.ethz.ch/~statsoft/stat.programme/R.html [in German] 2) Our local CRAN mirror: stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/ 3) R - (German-language) Wikipedia about letter "R": de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R 4) DVD-R - (German-language) Wikipedia de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-R 5) The R Project for Statistical Computing http://www.r-project.org/ So 3/5 are related to R which sounds good, but actually these 3 are all from the first twenty: 3/20. Martin >> On 2/6/07, Wensui Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 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. >>> >> Frank> -- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Frank> Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt Frank> University Frank> ______________________________________________ Frank> R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list Frank> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE Frank> do read the posting guide Frank> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and Frank> provide commented, minimal, self-contained, Frank> reproducible code. ______________________________________________ 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.