R help - Mar 2010 - Monetary support to the R-project (Was: Re: Executable for Production Use)

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Barry Rowlingson
<b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Ma Ismail - NewYork-MEAG-NY
> <ima at meag-ny.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> A few of the developers on our Quant team are using R for data
calculation and to generate a
[snip]
> ?I've noticed a lot of financial corporates getting into R and getting
> free help from R-help. From now on, I'm charging $50 per email to
> answer questions from anyone advertising as a 'quant'. Who do I
> invoice?
For companies and others wondering how to "give something back", it is
possible to support R and the R Foundation either through a donation:

http://www.r-project.org/ -> Foundation -> Donations
[http://www.r-project.org/foundation/donations.html]

or via a membership:

http://www.r-project.org/ -> Foundation -> Membership
[http://www.r-project.org/foundation/membership.html]

or both.

/Henrik
>
> Barry
>
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>

I would have become a member a long time ago if the money transfer 
process was more standard. I am not comfortable sending the details of 
my credit card via snail-mail or fax. Perhaps you could set up a 
proper Internet service or give people the chance to pay by paypal? I 
realize that could mean some initial outlay, but maybe it would be 
worth your while?

jarek p

Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Barry Rowlingson
> <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Ma Ismail - NewYork-MEAG-NY
>> <ima at meag-ny.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> A few of the developers on our Quant team are using R for data
>>> calculation and to generate a
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> I've noticed a lot of financial corporates getting into R and 
getting
>> free help from R-help. From now on, I'm charging $50 per email to
>> answer questions from anyone advertising as a 'quant'. Who do I
>> invoice?
> 
> For companies and others wondering how to "give something back",
it
is
> possible to support R and the R Foundation either through a 
donation:
> 
> http://www.r-project.org/ -> Foundation -> Donations
> [http://www.r-project.org/foundation/donations.html]
> 
> or via a membership:
> 
> http://www.r-project.org/ -> Foundation -> Membership
> [http://www.r-project.org/foundation/membership.html]
> 
> or both.
> 
> /Henrik
> 
>>
>> Barry
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> 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.
>>

On 15.12.2011 04:09, Xu Wang wrote:
> I am still interested in this. Is there no way to pay directly online? via
> paypal or other?
No.

Uwe Ligges

>
> Thanks,
>
> Xu
>
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