you should wait for the article on R by fox news Calvin Trillin - "Health food makes me sick."
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:19 AM, eugene dalt <eugened...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I worked on some ad data before and I found NYT article very biaised and > not far from a fraud... Anyone knows if they got money from a - company - > to play 'R'? > > Check out the title: R U Ready for R? Seems to me this title was stolen > from XLSolutions www.xlsolutions-corp.com and they never mentioned > XLSolutions in the article! > > They mentioned commercial R....never mentioned R-PLUS ( > www.experience-rplus.com), nor RSTAT (http://random-technologies-llc.com > ). > > I attended Trevor's class and his comment on the article is alarming: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > As a long time user of S, Splus and now R, I loved the article on R > until I read the paragraph on how it all started. > > I quote: > "According to them, the notion of devising something like R sprang up > during a hallway conversation. They both wanted technology better > suited for their statistics students, who needed to analyze data and > produce graphical models of the information. Most comparable software > had been designed by computer scientists and proved hard to use." > > This is grossly ungenerous to the original inventors of the wonderful S > language underlying the R system. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I think R community should report this fraudulent article to the NYT ed > board. It's fraud, not journalism and someone has to say it! > > 1- They got money for it....fine it's business as usual (unless someone > knows someone and took some bribes). Yes... One company seems to appear many > many times in the article... > 2- It's a 'free' article, then it's rubish as usual. > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
