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
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
|
Ben Fairbank wrote:
To those following this thRead:
There was a thread on this topic a year or so ago on this list, in which
contributors mentioned reasons that corporate powers-that-be were
reluctant to commit to R as a corporate statistical platform. (My
favorite was There is no one to
I was under the impression that most software has a licence agreement
that does not allow you to sue them. If Windows crashes at a crucial
moment, and loses me millions of dollars [I can't imagine that
happening to me, but it might happen to someone], I don't think I can
sue microsoft.
A few
Dear all,
I was reading with great interest your comments about the use of R in
the industry. Personally, I use R as scripting language in the financial
industry, not so much for its statistical capabilities (which are
great), but more for programming. I once switched from S-Plus to R,
because I
Private Equity Partner) wrote:
Dear all,
I was reading with great interest your comments about the use of R in
the industry. Personally, I use R as scripting language in the financial
industry, not so much for its statistical capabilities (which are
great), but more for programming. I once switched
I just ran on my Windows PC the benchmark from
http://www.sciviews.org/benchmark/index.html which is pretty old now.
Thats probably the reason for the errors which I did not correct. As
you see R has some advantages but Matlab has also some advantages.
However the differences are not to big. There
Hi,
On 2/8/07, Albrecht, Dr. Stefan (AZ Private Equity Partner)
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I would very much appreciate any comments on my above remarks. I know
there has been some discussions of R vs. Matlab on R-help, but these
could be somewhat out-dated, since both languages are evolving
with
ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
Ben Fairbank
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, 2007 10:24 AM
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From what I know Matlab is much more popular in
fixed income than R, but R is vastly more popular in
equities. R seems to be making quite a lot of headway
).
Max
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As someone who has (reluctantly) sent job postings to R Help, I think
in this, I am relatively far from
the industry world.
Haris
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Subject: Re: [R] R in Industry
From what I know Matlab is much more popular in
fixed income than R, but R is vastly more popular in
equities. R seems to be making quite a lot of headway
in finance, even in fixed income to some degree.
At least
)
Albrecht, Dr. Stefan (AZ Private Equity Partner) wrote:
Dear all,
I was reading with great interest your comments about the use of R in
the industry. Personally, I use R as scripting language in the
financial
industry, not so much for its statistical capabilities (which are
great), but more
Equity Partner)
Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] R in Industry
From what I know Matlab is much more popular in
fixed income than R, but R is vastly more popular in
equities. R seems to be making quite a lot of headway
in finance, even in fixed income to some degree.
At least
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. There are some simple rules
for postings (e.g. no attachments etc).
Max
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, then your company could hire an R programmer for a short
time to fix whatever needs fixing, and that would be a much smaller
expense than licensing an expensive package like those other ones out
there.
But perhaps I am completely wrong in this, I am relatively far from
the industry
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From what I know Matlab is much more popular
Dear all,
thanks a lot for your comments.
You raise several important points. I also think that depending on a certain
person maintaining a package can be dangerous, since this person might stop
working on the package. Even if the package is handed over to a second one, the
other guy may be
or when it is
removed by the person that created it.
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I
On 2/8/07, Albrecht, Dr. Stefan (AZ Private Equity Partner)
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Dear all,
thanks a lot for your comments.
You raise several important points. I also think that depending on a certain
person maintaining a package can be dangerous, since this person might stop
working on
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.
=links:jobs
Cheers,
Romain
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Subject: [R] R in Industry
The other day, CNN had a story on working at Google. Out
Conversely, unqualified(*) candidates are nearly guaranteed to find
support scarce here.
More seriously, free job boards, highly targeted like the one proposed
do seem to get enough traffic to make it worth the effort to post there.
One example serving the US market for market research is
that allows me to use R/S+ since I got out
of graduate school 2 years ago but with no success. I am wondering if
there is something that can be done to promote the use of R in
industry.
It's been very frustrating to see people doing statistics using
excel/spss and even more frustrating to see people
/07, Wensui Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been looking for job that allows me to use R/S+
since I got out of graduate school 2 years ago but with
no success. I am wondering if there is something that
can be done to promote the use of R in industry.
It's been very
Matthew Keller wrote:
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.
Change the name in the next major version to 'Rplus'?
Barry
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote:
That sounds like a good idea. The name R makes it especially hard to
find job postings, resumes or do any other type of search. Googling
resume+sas or job opening+sas is quick and fairly effective (less a
few airline jobs). Doing that with R
of graduate school 2 years ago but with
no success. I am wondering if there is something that
can be done to promote the use of R in industry.
It's been very frustrating to see people doing
statistics using excel/spss and even more frustrating to
see people paying
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
As someone who has (reluctantly) sent job postings to R Help, I think
that a SIG would be a good idea.
Max
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@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
... two main drawbacks of R at our firm (as viewed by our IT dept) are lack
of
guaranteed support as well as the difficulty in finding candidates.
-- Just an aside: lack of guaranteed support -- absolutely true in theory,
absolutely false in practice. I doubt that the voluntary support found on
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Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 2:08 PM
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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
I've been looking for job that allows me to use R/S+ since I got out
of graduate school 2 years ago but with no success. I am wondering if
there is something that can be done to promote the use of R in
industry.
It's been very frustrating to see people doing statistics using
excel/spss and even
to promote the use of R in
industry.
It's been very frustrating to see people doing statistics using
excel/spss and even more frustrating to see people paying $$$ for
something much inferior to R.
On 2/6/07, Doran, Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The other day, CNN had a story on working
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