R Usage Statistics
On Nov 19, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Charles C. Berry wrote:
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Kevin R. Coombes wrote:
Hi, I got the following comment from the reviewer of a paper (describing an algorithm implemented in R) that I submitted to BMC Bioinformatics: "Finally, which useful for exploratory work and some prototyping, neither R nor S-Plus are appropriate environments for deploying user applications that would receive much use."
The reviewer needs to get out more... "Intel Capital has placed the number of R users at 1 million, and Revolution kicks the estimate all the way up to 2 million." from the New York Times Business Innovation Technology Blog http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/r-you-ready-for-r/ which follows up on this article http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html in their printed paper. Did the reviewer notice where that article said: "Companies as diverse as Google, Pfizer, Merck, Bank of America, the InterContinental Hotels Group and Shell use it." ??? <sarcasm> Yeah, Google and those other companies just don't have much ken for muscular computing. ;-) </sarcasm> <more sarcasm> Maybe you should retool in Visual Basic. </more sarcasm> HTH, Chuck
<snip> Clearly, a fortunes package nominee... :-) Regards, Marc Schwartz