And from the side of a ordinary user who opened the page that read:
"Chapter 1: What is R?" two years ago to all of you on this list:
Since reading that first page things have changed so that I would get
through a normal working day without the software you create and the advice
you give.
Thank you to all of you
Christiaan
On 24 November 2011 18:00, Frank Harrell <f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> Bert you said it better than I ever could. What R creators, developers,
> and
> documenters do for us every day by how they effect our work as
> statisticians
> is something I would not know how to measure. THANK YOU!
> Frank
>
> Bert Gunter wrote
> >
> > ... and while I am at it, as this is the U.S. Thanksgiving...
> >
> > My sincere thanks to the many R developers and documenters who
> > contribute large amounts of their personal time and effort to
> > developing, improving, and enhancing the accessibility of R for data
> > analysis and science. I believe it is fair to say that R has had as
> > much or more impact than Gosset's Student's T, and I fear that
> > academics who do much of this work do not receive the professional
> > recognition they deserve. I continue to be amazed and humbled by their
> > high quality and consummate professionalismism -- I could not live
> > without R.
> >
> > Kind regards and best wishes to all,
> >
> > -- Bert
> >
> > --
> >
> > Bert Gunter
> > Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
>
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