[OGRUG] " departments are concerned about security" [Forked from: "Centres of ExpeRtise within GOC"]

Good to know, and glad others have looked into this further, and developed
documentation.
Still, I can imagine how this issue may make a few directors nervous.


Abdool

On 9 August 2016 at 16:19, Joseph Potvin <jpotvin at xalgorithms.org> wrote:

Abdool,

See: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenSourceSecurityStrategy

(Co-authors of that summary are listed at the bottom of the entry.)

Joseph Potvin
Executive Director, Xalgorithms Foundation
Mobile: 819-593-5983
jpotvin at xalgorithms.org
https://www.xalgorithms.org

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Abdool Yasseen <abdool.yasseen at gmail.com>
wrote:

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

about

the prevalence of R use in the Government of Canada (GOC) -

particularly

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

let

me know? Any information on specific tasks or level of expertise

would

be a

helpful addition.

Many thanks in advance,

Alex Demarsh
Epidemiologist/Biostatistician, Public Health Agency of Canada

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