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

[Abdool Yasseen]

Good to know, and glad others have looked into this further, and developed
documentation.
Still, I can imagine how this issue may make a few directors nervous.


Abdool

On 9 August 2016 at 16:19, Joseph Potvin <jpotvin at xalgorithms.org> wrote:

> Abdool,
>
> See: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenSourceSecurityStrategy
>
> (Co-authors of that summary are listed at the bottom of the entry.)
>
> Joseph Potvin
> Executive Director, Xalgorithms Foundation
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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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