On 2/12/2007 2:50 AM, Patrick Connolly wrote: > 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?
"R statistician job" doesn't do too badly. The top 4 hits are job ads for statisticians requiring R. Further down irrelevant uses of the letter R start to show up. "R programming job" finds a few different jobs, but has a lower hit rate. Your results will vary; Google tailors its results to what it knows about you. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ 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.