[R] Who uses R?

[Daniel Malter]

Hi, although this is a guess, I would dare to say that it is probably used
in at least some schools/departments of any research university. Yet,
universities/schools often have a plethora  
of statistical softwares available (in our school, for instance, SAS, Stata,
SPSS, S-Plus) so it is not THE only statistical software. But R is one of
them and especially the guys at the forefront of statistical modeling are
using it because of its flexibility in programming.

Cheers,
Daniel

University of Maryland

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Von: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] Im
Auftrag von Gustaf Rydevik
Gesendet: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 7:02 AM
An: Eleni Rapsomaniki
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Betreff: Re: [R] Who uses R?

On 9/25/07, Eleni Rapsomaniki <e.rapsomaniki at mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> 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
>


The statistics section of the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease
Control, where I work, use R about 70% of the time.
The MEB (medical epidemiology and biostatistics) department at Karolinska
Institutet, the nordic countries premiere medical university, are also heavy
R-users.

Best,

Gustaf

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