Re: [R] Who uses R with multicore, SNOW or CUDA package for resource intense computing?

2010-11-20 Thread Ajay Ohri
R doesnot have a 1 million or two million users (thats an Urban legend thanks to Vance NYT article) . The exact number is not proven and estimated by a variety of association by proxy methods. It could be as low as 5,00,000 or as many as 5 million users. It's like speculating which private

[R] Who uses R with multicore, SNOW or CUDA package for resource intense computing?

2010-11-16 Thread erik
Hi, who of you in this forum uses R (http://www.r-project.org/) with the multicore, SNOW or CUDA packages, so for advanced calculations that need more power than a workstation CPU? On which hardware do you compute these scripts? At home/ at work or do you have data center access somewhere? The

Re: [R] Who uses R?

2007-09-26 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
(Ted Harding) wrote: Pat Altham (now retired) developed extensive teaching (and other) materials in R at the Cambridge University Statistical Laboratory. From her personal web page: Some of the computer languages I have had to try to learn since graduating in 1964: Cambridge autocode,

[R] Who uses R?

2007-09-25 Thread Eleni Rapsomaniki
Dear R users, I have started work in a Statistics government department and I am trying to convince my bosses to install R on our computers (I can't do proper stats in Excel!!). They asked me to prove that this is a widely used software (and not just another free-source, bug infected toy I found

Re: [R] Who uses R?

2007-09-25 Thread Gesmann, Markus
7327 5718 http://www.lloyds.com SAVE PAPER - THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eleni Rapsomaniki Sent: 25 September 2007 11:46 To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Who uses R? Dear R users, I have started work

Re: [R] Who uses R?

2007-09-25 Thread Gustaf Rydevik
On 9/25/07, Eleni Rapsomaniki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear R users, I have started work in a Statistics government department and I am trying to convince my bosses to install R on our computers (I can't do proper stats in Excel!!). They asked me to prove that this is a widely used software

Re: [R] Who uses R?

2007-09-25 Thread Simon Blomberg
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eleni Rapsomaniki Sent: 25 September 2007 11:46 To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Who uses R? Dear R users, I have started work in a Statistics government department and I am trying to convince my

Re: [R] Who uses R?

2007-09-25 Thread Patrick Burns
Just speaking of the field I'm most familiar with, there are now users of R in many of the largest financial companies in the world. http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/spreadsheet_addiction.html is one place to look for arguments against Excel. This was just updated to include an amusing

Re: [R] Who uses R?

2007-09-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
- THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eleni Rapsomaniki Sent: 25 September 2007 11:46 To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Who uses R? Dear R users, I have started work in a Statistics government department

Re: [R] Who uses R?

2007-09-25 Thread Ted Harding
On 25-Sep-07 10:46:17, Eleni Rapsomaniki wrote: Dear R users, I have started work in a Statistics government department and I am trying to convince my bosses to install R on our computers (I can't do proper stats in Excel!!). They asked me to prove that this is a widely used software (and

Re: [R] Who uses R?

2007-09-25 Thread Ted Harding
On 25-Sep-07 11:11:44, Patrick Burns wrote: Just speaking of the field I'm most familiar with, there are now users of R in many of the largest financial companies in the world. http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/spreadsheet_addiction.html is one place to look for arguments against

Re: [R] Who uses R?

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Adams
Eleni, FWIW, there are a number of us in the U.S. NOAA/National Weather Service and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) (who wrote the 'Verification' package) who use R for verification of meteorological and hydrologic forecasts, aiding in the calibration of distributed

Re: [R] Who uses R?

2007-09-25 Thread Ted Harding
On 25-Sep-07 12:34:47, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 9/25/2007 7:45 AM, (Ted Harding) wrote: On 25-Sep-07 11:11:44, Patrick Burns wrote: Just speaking of the field I'm most familiar with, there are now users of R in many of the largest financial companies in the world.

Re: [R] Who uses R?

2007-09-25 Thread Daniel Malter
- -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Gustaf Rydevik Gesendet: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 7:02 AM An: Eleni Rapsomaniki Cc: r-help@r-project.org Betreff: Re: [R] Who uses R? On 9/25/07, Eleni Rapsomaniki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear R users, I

Re: [R] Who uses R?

2007-09-25 Thread Patrick Burns
(Ted Harding) wrote: On 25-Sep-07 12:34:47, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 9/25/2007 7:45 AM, (Ted Harding) wrote: On 25-Sep-07 11:11:44, Patrick Burns wrote: Just speaking of the field I'm most familiar with, there are now users of R in many of the largest financial companies in the