Al -
You are likely late in the debate. It's no longer R vs
S+ ... but R+ vs S+. I was truely amazed when I saw
the demo of R+ at UseR conference in August. R+ will
be S+ killer.
Just my two cents -
Eugene.
--- Al Wilkinson <a44944@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi - Seeing Insightful sponsor R events, open up
> access to R within their
> system, I'm wondering if this entails any risk to
> the development of R
> itself. I assume that R's core development team does
> what's best for R, but
> couldn't Insightful's influence prove to be a
> distraction at best? From an R
> user standpoint, why spend energy aligning both
> systems, if such a thing is
> actually being contemplated or even implemented?
>
> Insightful promotes and sells a commercial product
> and has to see the ever
> growing pool of R users as the untapped ressource,
> by and large.
> Novell/MS/Linux etc... smacks of damage control in a
> sense, as does the
> Insightful/R case. Is it?
>
> S+ and R engines are different, developement
> philosophy that drive both
> systems is clearly not aligned, and R could go on
> thriving even if
> Insightful went out of business tomorrow morning
> (probably thrive further?).
> Insightful is hard at work bridging to R, as SPSS,
> Statistica are too,
> incidently. But given S+/R's close original kinship
> and Insightful's
> commercial interests, wouldn't any promotion of the
> reverse be in R's
> detriment?
>
> Just kicking the idea around. Maybe it's really to
> R's best. Thanks.
>
> Al W.
>
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