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Re: [R] R in Industry

Thomas Lumley

2007-02-07

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On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote:

> That sounds like a good idea. The name R makes it especially hard to
> find job postings, resumes or do any other type of search. Googling
> resume+sas or "job opening"+sas is quick and fairly effective (less a
> few airline jobs). Doing that with R is of course futile. At the risk of
> getting flamed, it's too bad it's not called something more unique such
> as Rpackage, Rlanguage, etc.

For all sorts of reasons I don't think Googling for jobs using R was high
on Ross & Robert's list of use cases when they chose the name ...

It might be better to have an archived list rather than a CRAN page --
I've just noticed that cran.us last updated on Jan 12, which would be a
long delay for job ads.

 -thomas

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