[R] Interview questions?

2015-01-11 Thread Keith S Weintraub
Folks, I was wondering if anyone has put together a list of R job interview questions? I’m thinking of about 5-20 possibly open ended questions for interviewing a candidate to do R programming. Just programming. Not statistics or mathematics. What I don’t want are tricky “puzzles” that are

Re: [R] Interview questions?

2015-01-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Keith S Weintraub wrote: I was wondering if anyone has put together a list of R job interview questions? I’m thinking of about 5-20 possibly open ended questions for interviewing a candidate to do R programming. Just programming. Not statistics or mathematics. Keith,

Re: [R] Interview questions?

2015-01-11 Thread Spencer Graves
1. What have they done in the way of R package development? If they've done that, then you can review packages they've worked on and ask questions about that (the package development process as well as the documentation they wrote) to see if that's of sufficient quality. 2. What do they

Re: [R] Interview questions?

2015-01-11 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Ask if they have a favourite R programmer. This will tell you how much into the R culture they are, and perhaps also tell you if their opinions of a good programmer concur with yours... On 11 Jan 2015 16:49, Keith S Weintraub kw1...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I was wondering if anyone has put

Re: [R] Interview questions?

2015-01-11 Thread Robert Sherry
Here is a question that I might ask. What are the alternatives to R and how does R compare? That is, for what class of problems is R the best tool around? Bob On 1/11/2015 1:16 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: Ask if they have a favourite R programmer. This will tell you how much into the R