[R-sig-mediawiki] R-News article

[Alex Brown]

I am using it for data presentation and exploration in an intranet  
setting, mostly for use by engineers.

It is being used in a number of different ways:

1) Our company intranet includes various database backed systems for  
tracking bugs, regression testing, automated performance testing.  I  
wish to extract and present this data in a variety of ways which are  
not available through the standard company interfaces, which tend to  
be simplistic, or tailored for general use.  For instance, take our  
run-times of the benchmarks that make up specCpu2000 over the last 6  
months, derive the spec score, and plot - to discover anomalies and  
regressions.

Using the Rform interface additional detail can be shown as required,  
and the page can update to take account of new data.

The reasonably strong database and system() support in R is useful  
here, and of course the graphs are of presentation quality.

2) In addition, in exploring and enhancing the performance of our  
product (an operating system component), we will also temporarily  
generate large amounts of heterogeneous data - including times, event  
counts, etc.

The combination of R and wiki enables engineers to construct report- 
style pages which use in-line or database stored data, extract  
significant information and present it in an attractive and simple  
form.  It can be accessed and enhanced from anyone's desk.   
Previously data was normally stored in csv files in ad-hoc locations,  
and and calculations would be done in excel, perl or some other tool  
- typically meaning it is only accessible to it's owner.


I hope this is of use to you.

-Alex



On 26 Sep 2006, at 08:19, Sigbert Klinke wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'am just writing an article for the R News about the extension. The
> reviewers have requested that I say more detailed for what the  
> extension
> can being used. So could you tell me in which context you are using  
> the
> extension?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>   Sigbert
>
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