Re: [R] application of R

2018-01-12 Thread peter dalgaard
In the (approximate) words of Ross Ihaka: R could have been made commercial and then it might have had like 500 users instead of millions. Programming language aside, there isn't really much of a market for new, closed source, statistical programs, at least not unless you get to a level of soph

Re: [R] application of R

2018-01-11 Thread muhammad ramzi
Oh I see thank you very much now I understand. So for me as I am considered an intermediate in R and also C++ what kind of programming language I could take up and learn to make a commercial statistical software ? Any advices as well ? > On 12 Jan 2018, at 12:40 PM, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > > B

Re: [R] application of R

2018-01-11 Thread Berend Hasselman
> On 12 Jan 2018, at 04:09, muhammad ramzi wrote: > > Thank you very much this really helped me a lot . > So actually why would people learn R(other than personal interests ) if you > can't really build anything that can be sold ? I'm sorry if I'm asking bad > questions > Google with the

Re: [R] application of R

2018-01-11 Thread Eric Berger
Marc and Jeff give excellent advice. Since you have a commercial perspective, here are two more points to consider: 1. There are companies that sell software built on R. For example, the company Rstudio.com develops both free and "professional" versions of its products RStudio and Shiny. 2. You ask

Re: [R] application of R

2018-01-11 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Because many technical people need to accomplish statistical data analysis with computers that depend on existing algorithms applied in new ways, or with new algorithms that are not implemented by commercial software. Often such people have no desire to provide step-by-step support of their too

Re: [R] application of R

2018-01-11 Thread muhammad ramzi
Thank you very much this really helped me a lot . So actually why would people learn R(other than personal interests ) if you can't really build anything that can be sold ? I'm sorry if I'm asking bad questions > On 12 Jan 2018, at 4:43 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote: > > > >> On Jan 11, 2018, a

Re: [R] application of R

2018-01-11 Thread Marc Schwartz
> On Jan 11, 2018, at 2:15 PM, muhammad ramzi wrote: > > hello guys, > > i am a petroleum engineering student and i will be having a long semester > break and currently i am learning THE R PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE just out of > interest. I would just like to know if i am able to design a business

[R] application of R

2018-01-11 Thread muhammad ramzi
hello guys, i am a petroleum engineering student and i will be having a long semester break and currently i am learning THE R PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE just out of interest. I would just like to know if i am able to design a business analysis software using R as in create a type of software that can be