[OGRUG] " departments are concerned about security" [Forked from: "Centres of ExpeRtise within GOC"]

[Joseph Potvin]

Abdool,

See: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenSourceSecurityStrategy

(Co-authors of that summary are listed at the bottom of the entry.)

Joseph Potvin
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On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Abdool Yasseen <abdool.yasseen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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