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Eleni Rapsomaniki

2007-Sep-25 10:46 UTC

[R] Who uses R?

Dear R users,

I have started work in a Statistics government department and I am trying to
convince my bosses to install R on our computers (I can't do proper stats in
Excel!!). They asked me to prove that this is a widely used software (and not
just another free-source, bug infected toy I found on the web!) by suggesting
other big organisations that use it. Are you aware of any reputable places
(academic or not) that use R? (e.g. maybe you work for them)

I would be really grateful for any advice on this. Also suggestions on arguments
I could use to persuade them that R is so much better than Excel would be very
much appreciated.

Many Thanks
Eleni Rapsomaniki

Gesmann, Markus

2007-Sep-25 10:59 UTC

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Dear Eleni,

Maybe the participants of the useR conferences are a good start, see
e.g.
http://www.r-project.org/useR-2006/participants.html

Kind regards,

Markus Gesmann 
FPMA
Lloyd's Market Analysis
Lloyd's * One Lime Street * London * EC3M 7HA
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Dear R users,

I have started work in a Statistics government department and I am
trying to
convince my bosses to install R on our computers (I can't do proper
stats in
Excel!!). They asked me to prove that this is a widely used software
(and not
just another free-source, bug infected toy I found on the web!) by
suggesting
other big organisations that use it. Are you aware of any reputable
places
(academic or not) that use R? (e.g. maybe you work for them)

I would be really grateful for any advice on this. Also suggestions on
arguments
I could use to persuade them that R is so much better than Excel would
be very
much appreciated.

Many Thanks
Eleni Rapsomaniki

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Gustaf Rydevik

2007-Sep-25 11:02 UTC

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On 9/25/07, Eleni Rapsomaniki <e.rapsomaniki at mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk>
wrote:> Dear R users,
>
> I have started work in a Statistics government department and I am trying
to
> convince my bosses to install R on our computers (I can't do proper
stats in
> Excel!!). They asked me to prove that this is a widely used software (and
not
> just another free-source, bug infected toy I found on the web!) by
suggesting
> other big organisations that use it. Are you aware of any reputable places
> (academic or not) that use R? (e.g. maybe you work for them)
>
> I would be really grateful for any advice on this. Also suggestions on
arguments
> I could use to persuade them that R is so much better than Excel would be
very
> much appreciated.
>
> Many Thanks
> Eleni Rapsomaniki
>

The statistics section of the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease
Control, where I work, use R about 70% of the time.
The MEB (medical epidemiology and biostatistics) department at
Karolinska Institutet, the nordic countries premiere medical
university, are also heavy R-users.

Best,

Gustaf

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address:Essingetorget 40,112 66 Stockholm, SE
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Patrick Burns

2007-Sep-25 11:11 UTC

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Just speaking of the field I'm most familiar with, there
are now users of R in many of the largest financial
companies in the world.

http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/spreadsheet_addiction.html

is one place to look for arguments against Excel.
This was just updated to include an amusing numerical
bug in Excel 2007. Guess what 850 * 77.1 equals.


Patrick Burns
patrick at burns-stat.com
+44 (0)20 8525 0696
http://www.burns-stat.com
(home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User")

Eleni Rapsomaniki wrote:
>Dear R users,
>
>I have started work in a Statistics government department and I am trying to
>convince my bosses to install R on our computers (I can't do proper
stats in
>Excel!!). They asked me to prove that this is a widely used software (and
not
>just another free-source, bug infected toy I found on the web!) by
suggesting
>other big organisations that use it. Are you aware of any reputable places
>(academic or not) that use R? (e.g. maybe you work for them)
>
>I would be really grateful for any advice on this. Also suggestions on
arguments
>I could use to persuade them that R is so much better than Excel would be
very
>much appreciated.
>
>Many Thanks
>Eleni Rapsomaniki
>
>______________________________________________
>R-help at r-project.org mailing list
>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
>
>  
>

Vladimir Eremeev

2007-Sep-25 11:37 UTC

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You could provide examples of errors, which Excel gives in computations, in
comparison to R.
Excel could not calculate inverse matrix for my task, so I was to find
something better, and I've found R (it was version 1.2, as far as I
remember).

My another problem was scripting (R is more convenient, but harder to
learn).

You can also notice the publication quality graphics.


e.rapsomaniki wrote:> 
> Dear R users,
> 
> I have started work in a Statistics government department and I am trying
> to
> convince my bosses to install R on our computers (I can't do proper
stats
> in
> Excel!!). They asked me to prove that this is a widely used software (and
> not
> just another free-source, bug infected toy I found on the web!) by
> suggesting
> other big organisations that use it. Are you aware of any reputable places
> (academic or not) that use R? (e.g. maybe you work for them)
> 
> I would be really grateful for any advice on this. Also suggestions on
> arguments
> I could use to persuade them that R is so much better than Excel would be
> very
> much appreciated.
> 
> Many Thanks
> Eleni Rapsomaniki
> 
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(Ted Harding)

2007-Sep-25 11:40 UTC

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On 25-Sep-07 10:46:17, Eleni Rapsomaniki wrote:> Dear R users,
> 
> I have started work in a Statistics government department
> and I am trying to convince my bosses to install R on our
> computers (I can't do proper stats in Excel!!). They asked
> me to prove that this is a widely used software (and not
> just another free-source, bug infected toy I found on the
> web!) by suggesting other big organisations that use it.
> Are you aware of any reputable places (academic or not)
> that use R? (e.g. maybe you work for them)
> 
> I would be really grateful for any advice on this. Also
> suggestions on arguments I could use to persuade them that
> R is so much better than Excel would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Many Thanks
> Eleni Rapsomaniki
Dear Eleni,

You deserve all the support we can give you!

As well as the many other cogent suggestions you will get
(and I hope there will be plenty of citations of articles
published in prestigious journals), the following may also
be helpful:

Pat Altham (now retired) developed extensive teaching (and
other) materials in R at the Cambridge University Statistical
Laboratory. From her personal web page:

  "Some of the computer languages I have had to try to
   learn since graduating in 1964: Cambridge autocode,
   algol, phoenix, machine-code, Fortran, BBC-Basic,
   GLIM, GENSTAT, Linux, S-Plus and finally (probably
   the best so far!) R."

See http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~pat/ for more details
and for links to her R material.

Good luck!
Ted.

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Thomas Adams

2007-Sep-25 11:51 UTC

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Eleni,

FWIW, there are a number of us in the U.S. NOAA/National Weather Service 
and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) (who wrote 
the 'Verification' package) who use R for verification of meteorological
and hydrologic forecasts, aiding in the calibration of distributed 
hydrologic models, and in the analysis of radar estimated precipitation 
biases, and more?

Regards,
Tom


Eleni Rapsomaniki wrote:> Dear R users,
>
> I have started work in a Statistics government department and I am trying
to
> convince my bosses to install R on our computers (I can't do proper
stats in
> Excel!!). They asked me to prove that this is a widely used software (and
not
> just another free-source, bug infected toy I found on the web!) by
suggesting
> other big organisations that use it. Are you aware of any reputable places
> (academic or not) that use R? (e.g. maybe you work for them)
>
> I would be really grateful for any advice on this. Also suggestions on
arguments
> I could use to persuade them that R is so much better than Excel would be
very
> much appreciated.
>
> Many Thanks
> Eleni Rapsomaniki
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
>   

-- 
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John Kane

2007-Sep-25 11:56 UTC

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--- Eleni Rapsomaniki
<e.rapsomaniki at mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear R users,
> 
> I have started work in a Statistics government
> department and I am trying to
> convince my bosses to install R on our computers (I
> can't do proper stats in
> Excel!!). 
> I would be really grateful for any advice on this.
> Also suggestions on arguments
> I could use to persuade them that R is so much
> better than Excel would be very
> much appreciated.
> 
> Many Thanks
> Eleni Rapsomaniki
Here are some of the arguments for not using Excel (& 
other spread sheets) for statistical analysis.

Problems With Using Microsoft Excel for Statistics
 Microsoft Excel for Statistics
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jcryer/JSMTalk2001.pdf

Spread sheet addiction
http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/spreadsheet_addiction.html
Using Excel for survey analysis ( by J. Cryer)
http://www.audiencedialogue.org/excel1.html
Is Microsoft Excel an Adequate Statistics Package?
http://www.practicalstats.com/Pages/excelstats.html

Use of Excel for Statistical Analysis
http://www.agresearch.co.nz/Science/Statistics/exceluse1.htm

Should Microsoft Excel Software Be Used For
Statistical Analysis Or Graphics? ( J. Cryer)
http://gcrc.ucsd.edu/biostatistics/Excel.pdf

Statistical analysis using Microsoft Excel
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~jsimonof/classes/1305/pdf/excelreg.pdf

Statistical flaws in Excel
http://www.mis.coventry.ac.uk/~nhunt/pottel.pdf

NOTE X: USE OF EXCEL IN STATISTICS COURSES AND
LABORATORIES - SOME PROS AND CONS
http://www.daheiser.info/excel/notes/notex.pdf

Using Excel for Statistics :Tips and Warnings
http://www.reading.ac.uk/ssc/publications/guides/xfs.pdf

Doing statistics with a speadsheet -Perhaps not a good
idea? (J. Kane)
http://groups.google.ca/group/sci.stat.edu/browse_thread/thread/b2e6def39c6b8ef4/1f6bbe4e398a1e0d?q=John+Kane+Excel&rnum=1#1f6bbe4e398a1e0d

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