All:

R is used by the NOAA/U.S. National Weather Service to generate graphics
representing real-time hydrologic ensemble (probabilistic) forecasts. Go
to: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/mmefs/ to see.

It is also used in research and development for forecast verification and
analyses for the calibration of distributed hydrologic models.

Tom

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:52 PM, David Smith
<david@revolutionanalytics.com>wrote:

> It's hard to respond without making it seem like an advertisement for
> Revolution Analytics, but helping companies and government
> organizations standardize on R (specifically, Revolution R) for data
> analysis is something we specialize in. The (partial) list of our
> customers using Revolution R at
>
> http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/aboutus/our-customers.php
>
> may be useful fodder for your IT group, as may be this list of
> applications companies have done with R:
>
>
> http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/what-is-open-source-r/companies-using-r.php
>
> The section on the Revolutions blog that Michael Weylandt pointed to
> (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/applications/) may also be useful
> to you.
>
> If you'd like to contact me directly, I'd be happy to connect you with
> some folks here at Revolution Analytics that can provide direct help
> on getting R adopted at your organization.
>
> Hope this is useful to you,
> # David Smith
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:04, lynnland <lynn.landriault@ontario.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Gang,
> >
> > I realize this post is not directly related to programing issues with R,
> > however, it appears this may be the best place to ask my question.
> >
> > I am putting forward a request that R be considered "approved" software
> in
> > my organization.  Never an easy task, this is made much more difficult
> given
> > that it is open source software (sends the IT gang into little fits).
>  So, I
> > am compiling a list of organizations (Universities, goverment,
> > industry,etc.) that are using R and whose IT department considers it
> > approved software.
> >
> > If you belong to such an organization could you please let me know? If
> you
> > know of organizations that this applies to, but are not directly
> affiliated
> > with them I would still be interested but please just let me know which
> of
> > these two cases your response fits into.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Lynn
>
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> VP of Marketing, Revolution Analytics  http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com
> Tel: +1 (650) 646-9523 (Palo Alto, CA, USA)
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