[R] Who uses R?

[Patrick Burns]

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
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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
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