New York Times Article: Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power

[ajayohri]

Note R deplored on a cloud like www.zementis.com is even more a game changer
in the data mining and stats software industry...

While SPSS has embraced R, some other softwares are playing by Microsoft
1998 rules.....

Ajay

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From: Arthur Burke <[hidden email]>
Date: Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Subject: [R] New York Times Article: Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power
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Readers of this list might be interested in the following article in the
New York Times and might find amusing the notion that "Some people
familiar with R describe it as a supercharged version of Microsoft's
Excel spreadsheet software...".

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07progra
m.html?_r=1&ref=technology<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?_r=1&ref=technology>

Art
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