[OGRUG] R-UG-Ottawa Digest, Vol 41, Issue 1

[J C Nash]

List still operational, but irregular. We've been hoping to get someone to coordinate the OGRUG group, as Paul and I are 
away a fair bit and not as active as before, at least not in meetings.

Best, JN

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>    1. Fwd: [OTT-GOSLING] SAS to R migration (Joseph Potvin)
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> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 11:23:57 -0500
> From: Joseph Potvin <jpotvin at opman.ca>
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> Subject: [OGRUG] Fwd: [OTT-GOSLING] SAS to R migration
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> Forwarding a question from a fellow at a certain science-based federal dept.
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> Joseph Potvin
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> From: Glen Newton <glen.newton at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:16 AM
> Subject: [OTT-GOSLING] SAS to R migration
> To: GOSLING members in Ottawa <ottawa-gosling at list.goslingcommunity.org>
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> Does anyone on this list know of an example of any GoC or western
> government organization migrating their users/base from SAS to R?
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> More specifically, when the organization was a science-based organization
> and the majority of the users being on the science side of things?
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> Just a theoretical question of course...
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> I found some useful resources but no concrete examples as per above:
> - SAS to R Migration https://www.r-bloggers.com/sas-to-r-migration/
> - A Saga Of Migrating From SAS To R
> http://www.mbtmag.com/article/2015/03/saga-migrating-sas-r
> - Helping Your Organization Migrate to R
> http://r4stats.com/2015/03/16/migrating-to-r/
> - SAS to R Migration - LondonR http://www.londonr.org/download/?id=87
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> I am particularly interested where perhaps 90% of the use cases were
> addressed by R, and perhaps 10% still had to be in SAS, but at least
> reducing the SAS costs by 90%......
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> Thanks,
> Glen
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