off-topic question: Latex and R in industries

We have S+ at our company, but I choose to use R because I like it.
There are two observations I have.  One is that many people in IT
don't seem to like open source software that much because either they
don't trust it or they say there is no one who stands behind it.
Second, equally important point, is that there is no R salesforce
marking the product to companies.  Commercial products have marketing
budgets and aggresive salespeople who contact potential purchasers.
Insightful will come in and give a company presentation.  Who wants to
volunteer to come into my company and demo R for my manager?  I only
learned about R a year ago when a friend of mine told me about it.
The real question is, how to get more exposuRe?

Thanks,

Roger
On Apr 6, 2005 2:09 PM, Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz at medanalytics.com> wrote:

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 11:38 -0400, Wensui Liu wrote:

Latex and R are really cool stuff. I am just wondering how they are
used in industry. But based on my own experience, very rare. Why?

How about the opinion of other listers? Thanks.

As Tony has referenced, the answer will depend upon what industry you
are referring to.

There is an article in R News (2004 Vol 4 Number 1) that you might find
of interest entitled "The Decision to Use R" from a small medical
consulting business perspective:

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2004-1.pdf

There is a persistent rumor of a similar article from a large corporate
medical industry environment that is due "real soon now"...  ;-)

You might also want to search the r-help archives as there have been
some fairly "lively" discussions on this in the recent past, especially
in healthcare applications when a certain other Statistical Analysis
System is referenced as being the perceived standard...

HTH,

Marc

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I use R. My company benefits from it. My clients benefit from it.
...and I sleep just fine (when I do sleep)... :-)
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     R-help (June 2004)