[OGRUG] Centres of ExpeRtise within GOC?

[Abdool Yasseen]

Hay Alex,

Re: the use of R in government.

I know some departments are concerned about security, and are hesitant to
make the shift. Also, the current knowledge base for R varies from place to
place, like Tyler said. This will definitely be changing in the future,
because R is the dominant paradigm in most analytic based university shops,
of which their alumni will be future government employees.

The only analogy I can think about is at the Institute for Clinical
Evaluative Sciences (ICES) which didn't have R available, up till a few
years back. They were really concerned about data access and only support
an internally contained html-version of R (importing packages and the like
need to be monitored). In light of the ever increasing need for web based
security, I think the use of R in the government should follow suit.

Just a point to note when thinking about applying freeware in institution
settings,

Abdool



On 9 August 2016 at 11:27, jianmin duan <jim201105 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Alex:
>
> At Duan Pharmaceutical Consulting Inc., we use R for biostatistical
> analysis, PK/PD data analysis and power tests etc.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jianmin
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Alex Demarsh <alexdemarsh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hey folks -
> >
> > Not sure if this is on-topic for this list, but I've become curious about
> > the prevalence of R use in the Government of Canada (GOC) - particularly
> > how many analytic teams are using R as their primary language.
> >
> > So, if you're a member of (or just know of) such an "R Shop", could you
> let
> > me know? Any information on specific tasks or level of expertise would
> be a
> > helpful addition.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance,
> >
> > Alex Demarsh
> > Epidemiologist/Biostatistician, Public Health Agency of Canada
> >
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Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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