[R] How do I get my IT department to "bless" R?

[Neil Shephard]

Daniel Viar wrote:
> 
> I currently use R at work "under the radar", but there's a chance I
> could loose that access.  I'd like to get our company to feel
> comfortable with open source and R in particular.  Does anyone have
> any experience with their company's IT department and management that
> they would be willing to share?  How does one get an all Microsoft
> shop on board with allowing users to user R?  I know about the recent
> NY Times article and recent news.  I'm afraid I may need some case
> studies or examples of what other companies have done.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 

What alternative do they expect you to use?  

If they expect you to use Excel for statistics then its worth letting them
know that this would be a very bad idea as there are many short-comings,
some of which I've referenced at..

http://slack.ser.man.ac.uk/progs/stata/avoid_excel.html

Neil
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