On Wed, 07-Feb-2007 at 07:07PM +1100, Jim Lemon wrote:
|> Matthew Keller wrote:
|> > 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?
|> >
|> Try "r stats". I get 18/20 on Google with that.
Not bad, but the original question was about R related employment.
Trying "R jobs" or "R employment" comes up with Hungarian girls
looking for a job in Cork (I think the letter 'r' in 'Cork' that had
that one show up) and somewhat further down the list comes a question
about jobs that take a long time running MCMC using R in ESS. And
somewhat further still before there's an R-help archive where someone
asked a similar question to what started this thread. Not a lot of
use.
Trouble is now I've clicked on some of those, they'll rate higher on
Google's ranking so I'm perpetuating the problem.
Did anyone think of a search string that wasn't useless?
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