Thanks Max (& Martin)! I was about to encourage this. Once the head hunters get wind of this, I expect a lot of activity - hopefully most will be relevant.
Max, I'd be willing to chip in if you need admin help. -- Best, Jim Porzak Loyalty Matrix Inc. San Francisco, CA http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimporzak On 2/8/07, Kuhn, Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Maechler called my bluff on this suggestion. I'm now the admin > for the new special interest group for R related job postings: > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-jobs > > Please send appropriate emails to this list. There are some simple rules > for postings (e.g. no attachments etc). > > Max > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kuhn, Max > Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 5:10 PM > To: Doran, Harold; R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] R in Industry > > 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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.