Google, hard disc drives and R

Tim Churches <tchur <at> optushome.com.au> writes:

A recent paper from Google Labs, interesting in many respects, not the
least the exclusive use of R for data analysis and graphics (alas not
cited in the approved manner):

http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

...
For all of you who noted that the first author is E. Pinheiro: This is not the
first half of D Bates, who's first name is Jos?.

Dieter