[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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