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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 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 > >______________________________________________ >R-help@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. > > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@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.
