[R] In which application areas is R used?

[John Fox]

Dear John,

By this definition, I'm confident that you could add sociology and political
science to your list.

Regards,
 John

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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4
905-525-9140x23604
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of John Maindonald
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 9:24 PM
> To: Berton Gunter
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] In which application areas is R used?
> 
> In this context "extensive" might be use of R in at least 
> maybe 2% or 5% of the published analyses in the area, enough 
> to make waves and stir awareness.
> 
> The immediate subtext is the demand of a book publisher for a 
> list of journals to which a new edition of a certain book 
> might be sent for review, and for a list of conferences where 
> it might be given exposure.
> For myself, in the medium to longer term, I am more 
> interested in other subtexts such as you mention, to which 
> the answer might have relevance.
> 
> I've wondered what support there'd be for starting a database 
> of bibliographic information on papers where R was used for 
> the analysis.
> Authors might supply the information, or readers of a paper 
> suggest its addition to the database. Once well populated, 
> this would provide a useful indication of the range of 
> application areas and journals where R is finding use.  [Or 
> has someone, somewhere, already started such a database?]
> 
> Finance and biostatistics are obvious areas that I'd omitted. 
>  Other areas drawn to my attention have been telephony and 
> electronic networks, solid state etc manufacturing, computer 
> system performance, oceanography and fisheries research, risk 
> analysis, process engineering and marketing. (I hope my 
> summaries are acceptably accurate).  I'm not sure what force 
> these other respondents have given the word "extensive".
> John Maindonald
> Mathematical Sciences Institute
> Australian National University.
> john.maindonald at anu.edu.au
> 
> 
> Berton Gunter wrote:
> > Define "extensive."
> >
> > I think your answers depend on your definition. I know a bunch of 
> > folks
> in pharmaceutical preclinical R&D who use R for all sorts of 
> stuff (analysis and visualization of tox and efficacy animal 
> studies, dose/response modeling, PK work, IC50 determination, 
> stability data analysis, etc.). Is "bunch" a majority? I 
> strongly doubt that it's near.
> Is it 5%, 10%, 30% ?? Dunno. Excel is still the Big Boy in 
> most of  these arenas I would bet. But I would also bet that 
> there are at  least 1 or 2 folks in dozens of companies who 
> use R in for these things.
> >
> > Is there a subtext to your query? -- i.e. are you trying to make an
> argument for something?
> >
> > -- Bert
> >
> >
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