R help - Mar 2010 - Using R in a corporate envinronment

Dear r-useRs,

After a couple of years in a 'R exile' of sorts, I've recently
changed jobs
and my current employer (an American multinational in the food manufacturing
industry) is much more open than my past employer (which wouldn't even want
to hear about anything that didn't begin with SAS...). So, after my
insistence corporate IT is now considering adopting R as part of our
statistical applications toolbox.

Things are not that simple though, and I'm now in the process of collecting
data for writing a Business Case for R in our corporation, and this is the
reason I'm writing you. If you have any examples (preferably with
references) and/or experience in a similar scenario please do write me. I've
already googled for some materials, and there's an excellent piece on the
NyTimes of last year, which pointed that even Google was adopting R, and
this is exactly the sort of thing I need to help convincing IT they'll be
making a sound choice in adopting R.

Thanks in advance for your attention,

Fernando Rosa

-- 
"Though this be randomness, yet there is structure in't."
                                          Rosa, F.H.F.P

Instituto de Matemática e Estatística
Universidade de São Paulo
Fernando Henrique Ferraz P. da Rosa
http://www.feferraz.net

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Fernando Henrique Ferraz Pereira da
Rosa <pessoal at fernandohrosa.com.br> wrote:
> reason I'm writing you. If you have any examples (preferably with
> references) and/or experience in a similar scenario please do write me.
I've
>
There is a recent reference in The Economist (search the ML archives
for the exact link). THere is also quite a complete case made here
[1].
Liviu

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help at r-project.org/msg45768.html

If you're looking for business and technical justifications for a
business to adopt R, I wrote some up last year:
http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2009/02/how-to-get-it-to-accept-and-love-r.html

In summary:
R is mainstream
R is supported
R is high-quality
R leads commercial packages in innovation
R is cost effective

Ironically, for many companies #1 is more important than #5, so
pointing to other companies using R is often a good strategy (see
http://blog.revolution-computing.com/rmedia/ for some media articles
that may help).
And also (if I may indulge the list for a small plug) some companies
are more comfortable paying for open-source software than installing
it free of cost (for the support, validation, and so on). If that's
the case for your company, there's REvolution R Enterprise:
http://www.revolution-computing.com/products/revolution-enterprise.php

Hope this helps,
# David Smith

--
David M Smith <david at revolution-computing.com>
VP of Marketing, REvolution Computing  http://blog.revolution-computing.com
Tel: +1 (650) 330-0553 x205 (Palo Alto, CA, USA)

Download REvolution R free:
www.revolution-computing.com/downloads/revolution-r.php

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Fernando Henrique Ferraz Pereira da
Rosa <pessoal at fernandohrosa.com.br> wrote:
>
> Dear r-useRs,
>
> After a couple of years in a 'R exile' of sorts, I've recently
changed jobs
> and my current employer (an American multinational in the food
manufacturing
> industry) is much more open than my past employer (which wouldn't even
want
> to hear about anything that didn't begin with SAS...). So, after my
> insistence corporate IT is now considering adopting R as part of our
> statistical applications toolbox.
>
> Things are not that simple though, and I'm now in the process of
collecting
> data for writing a Business Case for R in our corporation, and this is the
> reason I'm writing you. If you have any examples (preferably with
> references) and/or experience in a similar scenario please do write me.
I've
> already googled for some materials, and there's an excellent piece on
the
> NyTimes of last year, which pointed that even Google was adopting R, and
> this is exactly the sort of thing I need to help convincing IT they'll
be
> making a sound choice in adopting R.
>
> Thanks in advance for your attention,
>
> Fernando Rosa
>
> --
> "Though this be randomness, yet there is structure in't."
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Rosa, F.H.F.P
>
> Instituto de Matem?tica e Estat?stica
> Universidade de S?o Paulo
> Fernando Henrique Ferraz P. da Rosa
> http://www.feferraz.net
>
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>
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