On 11/05/2010 4:03 PM, Tal Galili wrote:
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>
S-PLUS isn't a company, it's a product. The company that currently owns
it is Tibco Software, as the Wikipedia article mentions. And Bill
Dunlap of Tibco has been making valuable contributions to S and S-PLUS
for years, and more recently to R on this mailing list.
Duncan Murdoch
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
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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
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Ivo Welch (ivo.we...@brown.edu, ivo.we...@gmail.com)
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