Hi Iaw (or Ivo ?!), I have seen REvolution in useR 2009. I personally know one of the students they sponsored once, and have been following David Smith's (great) online work for over a year now. REvolution is real, and I hope they (and more companies like them) will flourish in the future.
I agree with Duncan that finding the balance between open-source community and paid company employers can be a tricky game to play. But it seems to me that REvolution (and especially David Smith), have been doing not bad at all. I hope that other R based companies, like: - R+ <http://www.experience-rplus.com/> from XL Solutions. - RStat <http://random-technologies-llc.com/products/RStat/rstat> - S-PLUS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-PLUS> Would have acted more in a similar way. (And if they do, I didn't know about it and would like to have been more informed) Best, Tal ----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:08 PM, ivo welch <ivo...@gmail.com> wrote: > As an end-user, I wonder about Revolution R. Is the relationship > between Revolution R and the R community at-large a positive one? Do > the former contribute to the development efforts of the latter? Is > there a competitive aspect? is their forum competitive with r-help? > any other thoughts? (most of all, I simply hope that they help some > of the many helpful experts on this forum, who have volunteered their > expertise to help me so many times.) > > as for me, I discovered Revolution a few days ago. they did not have > an OSX enterprise version, so I downloaded the community version. > alas, after installation, starting up their GUI interface, I > immediately get > Error in library(Revobase) : there is no package called 'Revobase' > I tried to sign up for their forum, but the forum email responder > seems to be dead. (I sent them an email, but have not heard back > yet.) someone else here tried out their enterprise version on a linux > machine, but it had ugly problems in the creation of the top-level > Makefile. so, my initial impression is not overwhelming. are they > for real? > > regards, > > /iaw > > ---- > Ivo Welch (ivo.we...@brown.edu, ivo.we...@gmail.com) > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
