On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Mike Marchywka <marchy...@hotmail.com> wrote: > In many cases, the problem is not the R code but actually > getting the data you need to make real-life decisions or form opinions. > I sent a link to one of my rants to the OP on this topic > but it is a bit political so I will spare the whole list. > I would mention however that many day-to-day uses of R > can be limited due to lack of good data in a computer > readable format- you see people posting here about scraping > stock quotes from human readable web pages but sometimes you need to do that > with > data from government sources or they just cater to commercial > products. If you use R at home, you may want to take note > of requests from data sources on ideas about how they can optimize their > data delivery for your needs.
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