[R-sig-ins] General Insurance Data

[Dan Murphy]

Caveat repeated -- I'm not an attorney -- but the most promising
explanation I have heard is that if the way your GUI uses R as its
computational engine is so arms-length that R could be replaced by another
computational engine, then they are separate products. E.g., I have seen
programs write an entire R script to disk based on chosen data sources and
selected compuations ... but it could have been a SAS script.

Consult your attorney. :)

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 12:32 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
wrote:

>
> I was puzzled when I read that this program was "private". It seems to be
> a violation of the licensing terms of R.  It appears to depend entirely on
> the functionality of R which would make it a derivative work.
>
> --
> David Winsemius
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Oct 1, 2014, at 1:22 PM, Dan Murphy <chiefmurphy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for that reference. Looks nice. More than the original poster
> was
> > looking for?
> >
> > IMO, open-source is a great vehicle for distributing the guts engineering
> > that accommodates data exchange and munging. OTOH, I'm not convinced that
> > open-source is the right vehicle for distributing the "look and feel" of
> a
> > GUI. But I'm "open" for persuasion. :)
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Brian Fannin <
> BFannin at redwoodsgroup.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Can’t believe I forgot to mention that! I remember the presentation and
> >> it looks to be a very powerful tool. The integration with LaTeX is
> >> particularly nice.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> *From:* Christophe Dutang [mailto:dutangc at gmail.com]
> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 30, 2014 11:30 AM
> >> *To:* Brian Fannin
> >> *Cc:* Edward Roche; Markus Gesmann; chiefmurphy at gmail.com;
> >> R-Sig-Insurance at R-Project. Org
> >>
> >> *Subject:* Re: [R-sig-ins] General Insurance Data
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On the GUI part, there is a private software RPGM (
> >> http://www.pgm-solutions.com/) offering what Edward is looking for.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  This tool was presented at the r in insurance conference this year
> also!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  It is partially developed by an actuary.
> >>
> >> Christophe
> >>
> >>
> >> Le 30 sept. 2014 à 15:25, Brian Fannin <BFannin at redwoodsgroup.com> a
> >> écrit :
> >>
> >> Edward,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> If I’m reading your message right, the problem seems to break down into
> >> two parts: 1) reshape claims data, either by aggregating individual
> claim
> >> amounts or reshaping data from wide to long. 2) Provide a GUI to guide
> the
> >> user through the process of munging the data so that it may be analyzed.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On the first point, it would be helpful to identify a typical structure
> >> which must be modified. MRMR doesn’t have a function to go from wide to
> >> long as that’s a very simple melt command. The data I use in my work
> lives
> >> in a RDBMS in long format, so I’m sorted. I’ve toyed with the idea of a
> >> “collapse” function that would aggregate data along temporal
> dimensions, or
> >> summarize across a hierarchical axis (i.e. sum all of the territories
> into
> >> a single country). Such a function would be general enough that it could
> >> summarize individual claim transactions, though that’s likely better
> done
> >> by a database server.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> One the second point, note that an absence of a G
>

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