[R] Who uses R?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

That's a good answer, but the usage is very much wider.

As Pat Burns has just replied while I was composing this, many (maybe 
most) major financial institutions use R, although they may not want that 
to be taken as an endorsement.  Similarly for pharmaceuticals.

I would have thought a very convincing argument would be to point out all 
the books which have been published that are about or depend on R.

Eleni's email address is the UK, so perhaps the 'Statistics government 
department' is.  I hope not (as they should not need convincing), but
'University of Oxford' should suffice ....

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Simon Blomberg wrote:

> See the "Members and Donors" section on the left-hand side of the R web
> site.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon.
>
> Note to self: Become a supporting member.
>
> On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 11:59 +0100, Gesmann, Markus wrote:
>> 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
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
>> On Behalf Of Eleni Rapsomaniki
>> Sent: 25 September 2007 11:46
>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: [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
>>
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