Dear R-users and expeRts, can anyone provide me (and others as well, of course) with reference of companies, scientific labs and/or schools where R is being used? Or does some (even unofficial) list of comanies etc. where R is being used exist? I tried to find such an information on R's homepage and on a FAQ page, but unsuccesfully. (Of course, searching through this r-help conference one quickly finds lot of universities, where R is being used, but I wonder whether there exists some list) Why I do I want this? In general, managerial decisions (in large companies) about software are most often based on references like "Does this sotware use IBM, Sun, Oracle, MS, big banks, big Telco companies, NASA, Academy of Sciences, and so on?" rather than "this soft is scalable, offers this and this and that, uses proven and sound statistical methods..." An information like "R is being (of course succesfully) used in ...." would be of great help in any discussion about Statistical and Data Mining software in our company (Eurotel is the largest mobile operator in Czechia). (although it seems that I am the only one or at most one of few people knowing about R and using it in our company). BTW, wouldn't it be nice to have such a list somewhere at http://www.r-project.org/ ? Thanks in advance, Jan ------------------------------------------------- designed for _monospaced_ font ------------------------------------------------- /- Jan Svatos, MSc, PhD Sokolovska 215 -/ /- Data Analyst Prague 9 -/ /- Eurotel Praha 190 00 -/ /- jan_svatos at eurotel.cz Czechia -/ -------------------------------------------------
> In general, managerial decisions (in large companies) about software are > most often based on references like > "Does this sotware use IBM, Sun, Oracle, MS, big banks, big Telco > companies, NASA, Academy of Sciences, and so on?" > rather than "this soft is scalable, offers this and this and that, uses > proven and sound statistical methods..."The typical dilemma .. the managers that know nothing about the technology want to know what their competitors use and why is R not mentionned in the in-flight magazine like Java, .Net, etc. They can't impress their buddies playing golf quoting they signed a $200k service contract with R. My advice: don't ask. Simply use R/whatever fits best and gets the job done. Results count, not big names. Perl, Linux and Ruby made it like that into tons of big organizations. I know of people at the following big and small corporations using R: - ABB - Siemens - HHLA - NASA - Bank of Canada - Approximity :-) also look at the email addresses of the people here: http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/ Have fun with R, -A. ---------------------------------------- Armin Roehrl, http://www.approximity.com We manage risk Winston Wolf: That's thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten. First European Ruby conference, 21-22/6, Karlsruhe http://www.approximity.com/ruby/euruko
This is not a direct answer to your question, but the book "Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy" by Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian (1998) describe how to wage and win a standards war. Along with this, you may wish to review that S-News says about R and vice versa, the strength and depth of Insightful and the R Developers network (including Insightful's quarterly reports), and then make up your own mind. If you do this, please let me know. I work for a small company with many S-Plus users. However, I have a collaborator in another company who is using R. I now test virtually all software I develop in both S-Plus and R. I hope this helps. Best Wishes, Spencer Graves Jan_Svatos at eurotel.cz wrote:> Dear R-users and expeRts, > > can anyone provide me (and others as well, of course) with reference of > companies, scientific labs and/or schools where R is being used? > Or does some (even unofficial) list of comanies etc. where R is being used > exist? > I tried to find such an information on R's homepage and on a FAQ page, but > unsuccesfully. > (Of course, searching through this r-help conference one quickly finds lot > of universities, where R is being used, but I wonder whether there > exists some list) > > Why I do I want this? > > In general, managerial decisions (in large companies) about software are > most often based on references like > "Does this sotware use IBM, Sun, Oracle, MS, big banks, big Telco > companies, NASA, Academy of Sciences, and so on?" > rather than "this soft is scalable, offers this and this and that, uses > proven and sound statistical methods..." > > An information like "R is being (of course succesfully) used in ...." would > be of great help in any discussion about > Statistical and Data Mining software in our company (Eurotel is the largest > mobile operator in Czechia). > (although it seems that I am the only one or at most one of few people > knowing about R and using it in our company). > > BTW, > wouldn't it be nice to have such a list somewhere at > http://www.r-project.org/ ? > > Thanks in advance, > Jan > > > ------------------------------------------------- > designed for _monospaced_ font > ------------------------------------------------- > /- Jan Svatos, MSc, PhD Sokolovska 215 -/ > /- Data Analyst Prague 9 -/ > /- Eurotel Praha 190 00 -/ > /- jan_svatos at eurotel.cz Czechia -/ > ------------------------------------------------- > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
Some minimal statistics:
There are 1516 different "e-mail domain names" (the thing after
"@" in the e-mail addresses) of subscribers of r-help and r-announce.
Using bash:
(for l in r-help r-announce;do sed 's/.*@//' $l;done) | \
sort | uniq | tee /tmp/r-domains | wc
1516 1516 21218
This list with 1516 lines starts with
2020speech.com
aaa-plus.com
and ends with
zwallet.com
If someone is volunteering composing such a list, I can e-mail
that list to her/him.
Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum LEO C16 Leonhardstr. 27
ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND
phone: x-41-1-632-3408 fax: ...-1228 <><
>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Svatos <Jan_Svatos at
eurotel.cz>
>>>>> on Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:48:29 +0100 writes:
Jan> Dear R-users and expeRts, can anyone provide me (and
Jan> others as well, of course) with reference of companies,
Jan> scientific labs and/or schools where R is being used?
Jan> Or does some (even unofficial) list of comanies
Jan> etc. where R is being used exist? I tried to find such
Jan> an information on R's homepage and on a FAQ page, but
Jan> unsuccesfully. (Of course, searching through this
Jan> r-help conference one quickly finds lot of
Jan> universities, where R is being used, but I wonder
Jan> whether there exists some list)
Jan> Why I do I want this?
Jan> In general, managerial decisions (in large companies)
Jan> about software are most often based on references like
Jan> "Does this sotware use IBM, Sun, Oracle, MS, big banks,
Jan> big Telco companies, NASA, Academy of Sciences, and so
Jan> on?" rather than "this soft is scalable, offers this
Jan> and this and that, uses proven and sound statistical
Jan> methods..."
Jan> An information like "R is being (of course succesfully)
Jan> used in ...." would be of great help in any discussion
Jan> about Statistical and Data Mining software in our
Jan> company (Eurotel is the largest mobile operator in
Jan> Czechia). (although it seems that I am the only one or
Jan> at most one of few people knowing about R and using it
Jan> in our company).
Jan> BTW, wouldn't it be nice to have such a list somewhere
Jan> at http://www.r-project.org/ ?
Jan> Thanks in advance, Jan
Jan> -------------------------------------------------
Jan> designed for _monospaced_ font
Jan> ------------------------------------------------- /-
Jan> Jan Svatos, MSc, PhD Sokolovska 215 -/ /- Data Analyst
Jan> Prague 9 -/ /- Eurotel Praha 190 00 -/ /-
Jan> jan_svatos at eurotel.cz Czechia -/
Jan> -------------------------------------------------
Jan> ______________________________________________
Jan> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
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