[R] Use of R in clinical trials

[Erik Iverson]

Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
> Cody,
>
> How amazing that SAS is still used to produce reports that reviewers 
> hate and that requires tedious low-level programming.  R + LaTeX has 
> it all over that approach IMHO.  We have used that combination very 
> successfully for several data and safety monitoring reporting tasks 
> for clinical trials for the pharmaceutical industry.
>
> Frank

I used to work for a research group that also used R + LaTeX to produce 
DSMB reports for clinical trials.  If the DSMB members had only been 
exposed to SAS reports before, you could not get them to stop praising 
the quality of the R + LaTeX reports, even years into a trial.

Erik