Hay Alex,
Re: the use of R in government.
I know some departments are concerned about security, and are hesitant to
make the shift. Also, the current knowledge base for R varies from place to
place, like Tyler said. This will definitely be changing in the future,
because R is the dominant paradigm in most analytic based university shops,
of which their alumni will be future government employees.
The only analogy I can think about is at the Institute for Clinical
Evaluative Sciences (ICES) which didn't have R available, up till a few
years back. They were really concerned about data access and only support
an internally contained html-version of R (importing packages and the like
need to be monitored). In light of the ever increasing need for web based
security, I think the use of R in the government should follow suit.
Just a point to note when thinking about applying freeware in institution
settings,
Abdool
On 9 August 2016 at 11:27, jianmin duan <jim201105 at gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Alex:
At Duan Pharmaceutical Consulting Inc., we use R for biostatistical
analysis, PK/PD data analysis and power tests etc.
Best regards,
Jianmin
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Alex Demarsh <alexdemarsh at gmail.com>
wrote:
Hey folks -
Not sure if this is on-topic for this list, but I've become curious
the prevalence of R use in the Government of Canada (GOC) -
how many analytic teams are using R as their primary language.
So, if you're a member of (or just know of) such an "R Shop", could you
me know? Any information on specific tasks or level of expertise would
helpful addition.
Many thanks in advance,
Alex Demarsh
Epidemiologist/Biostatistician, Public Health Agency of Canada
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