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Oh wow. We used "S plus" at one of my previous jobs (and I wouldn't be surprised if they still do) because they had a paid product. This was at a conservative
by joncrane 10y ago
Oh wow. We used "S plus" at one of my previous jobs (and I wouldn't be surprised if they still do) because they had a paid product. This was at a conservative government agency.
- peatmoss 10y agoI have a friend at the Census who is, in principle, allowed to use R or Python, but is definitely aware of a strong historic bias for commercial statistical software--SAS mainly. That's the weak form of pro-commercial government bias. The strong form is that there are, I'm told, agencies in which only "certified" statistical software can be used.
- hatmatrix 10y agoHence the existence of Revolution Analytics (from which this blog is posted).