[R-sig-QA] Validation of an R installation

[Warnes, Gregory R]

I've just gotten down to this level in my inbox.  What is the status of this
effort?  We at Pfizer are interested in helping things along.

-Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-qa-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-sig-qa-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of A.J. Rossini
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:52 AM
> To: bates at stat.wisc.edu
> Cc: r-sig-qa at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-QA] Validation of an R installation
> 
> 
> Following up on my own post, here is an internal response from Andreas
> Krause (of Krause & Olson fame), our local reluctant expert on
> validation.   Please don't hold it against him, I was going to
> threaten access to the expresso machine if he didn't comment :-).
> 
> > Tony,
> >
> >this list looks good. Going by my experiences so far,
> >
> >the validate() function in Splus is really useful
> >and so is the white paper that Insightful released on their quality
> >assurance policy and techniques.
> >That's the major emphasis.
> >
> >Then there is typically a vendor audit (actually including a 
> visit to the
> >vendor), and here I'm not clear what that might mean for R.
> >I have actually suggested to Insightful that they become 
> some sort of Red
> >Hat or SuSe for R, and they seem to have discussed it.
> >I would put that question forward to the group. Elvis Miller (XLS
> >solutions, isn't it?) might be interested, too.
> >Maybe Ueli can comment on what people actually do during a 
> vendor audit
> >visit.
> >
> >Finally, a validation needs to take place for every new version, and
> >that's a pain given R's fairly frequent updates (compared to 
> S-Plus and
> >SAS at least). Another point of discussion (POD).
> >
> >If we sort these points out, we should be very close to 
> making it come
> >true.
> 
> 
> best,
> -tony
> 
> "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from 
> which we can easily
> roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
> 
> A.J. Rossini
> blindglobe at gmail.com
> 
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