R help - Jan 2009 - R "Threatens" SAS According to The NYT

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, ajay ohri <ajayohri at yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
> FYI..not a R -Help Topic, buy I dont know which list to post discussions
like this.
> Regards,
> Ajay
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: ajay ohri <ajayohri at yahoo.com>
> Date: Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:46 AM
> Subject: Re: R "Threatens" SAS, According to The New York Times
> To: SAS-L at listserv.uga.edu
>
>
> For people who have also wanted to try R , there is new version of R GUI ,
called Rattle downloadable from www.togaware.com
>
> Also check out Interview of Roger Hadaad , Founder of KXEN on his views on
analytics at www.decisionstats.com as well as how SPSS is responding to R at
http://www.decisionstats.com/2008/11/review-r-for-sas-and-spss-users/
>
> Ajay
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 1/7/09, Virtual SUG <sfbay0001 at AOL.COM> wrote:
>
>   From: Virtual SUG <sfbay0001 at AOL.COM>
>   Subject: R "Threatens" SAS, According to The New York Times
>   To: SAS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>   Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 10:11 AM
>  Hello everyone...
>
>   Thought you might be interested in reading this article,
>  which appears
>  in the 1/6/9 online edition of The New York Times:
>
>  
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html
>
>  The headline is "Data Analysts Captivated by R's
>  Power," and towards
>  the end of the story is the following paragraph:
>
>  "While it is difficult to calculate exactly how many
>   people use R,
>   those most familiar with the software estimate that close
>  to 250,000
>   people work with it regularly. The popularity of R at
>  universities
>  could threaten SAS Institute, the privately held business
>  software
>  company that specializes in data analysis software. SAS,
>  with more
>  than $2 billion in annual revenue, has been the preferred
>   tool of
>  scholars and corporate managers. "
>
>  Andrew Karp
>   Sierra Information Services
>   www.SierraInfomation.com
>

>>>>> "ao" == ajay ohri <ajayohri at yahoo.com>
>>>>>     on Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:07:13 +0530 writes:
    ao>  On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, ajay ohri
    ao> <ajayohri at yahoo.com> wrote:
    >> 
    >> FYI..not a R -Help Topic, buy I dont know which list to
    >> post discussions like this.  Regards, Ajay

R-help is fine.

Thanks a lot, Ajay, for the pointer!

At the bottom of the page it says

 __  A version of this article appeared in print on January 7, 2009, 
 __  on page B6 of the New York edition.

Now if any the NYT (print version) subscribers on R-help are
willing to fulfill a New Year's wish for me,
I'd be very grateful for a (digital scan) copy of that page.

Martin Maechler,
ETH Zurich


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    >> Thought you might be interested in reading this article,
    >> which appears in the 1/6/9 online edition of The New York
    >> Times:
    >> 
    >>
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html
    >> 
    >> The headline is "Data Analysts Captivated by R's
Power,"
    >> and towards the end of the story is the following
    >> paragraph:
    >> 
    >> "While it is difficult to calculate exactly how many
    >> people use R, those most familiar with the software
    >> estimate that close to 250,000 people work with it
    >> regularly. The popularity of R at universities could
    >> threaten SAS Institute, the privately held business
    >> software company that specializes in data analysis
    >> software. SAS, with more than $2 billion in annual
    >> revenue, has been the preferred tool of scholars and
    >> corporate managers. "
    >> 
    >> Andrew Karp Sierra Information Services www.SierraInfomation.com

The article was dugg on Digg.
http://digg.com/software/Data_Analysts_Captivated_by_R_s_Power_3

If you Digg, why not digg this.

Farrel Buchinsky