Hi, Kudos, nice exposure, but to make this more appropriate to R-devel I would just like to make a small comment about the point made by the SAS executive about getting on an airplane yada yada ...
1) It would seem to me that R has certification documents 2) anyone designing airplanes, analyzing clinical trials, etc. had better be worried about a lot more than whether their software is proprietary. So from that point of view it would seem that R has made great strides over the last 5 years especially in establishing a role for open source software solutions in regulated/ commercial environments. The question now is how to meld the archiac notions of validation and and verification seen in industry with the very different model of open source development? Rather than the correctness of the software, in which I think R is competitive, it is how to deal with the rapid release cycles of R, and the contributed packages. We pull our hair out in pharma trying to figure out how we would ever reconcile CRAN and validation requirements. I have no brilliant soulution, just food for thought Nicholas ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:02:55 +0000 (GMT) > From: Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> > Subject:Re: [Rd] NY Times article > To: Anand Patil <anand.prabhakar.pa...@gmail.com> > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Message-ID: <alpine.lfd.2.00.0901081258470.5...@auk.stats.ox.ac.uk> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > It has been all over R-help, in several threads. > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-January/184119.html > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-January/184170.html > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-January/184209.html > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-January/184232.html > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-January/184237.html > > and more > > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Anand Patil wrote: > > > Sorry if this is spam, but I couldn't see it having popped up on the list > > yet. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?emc=eta1 > > > > Anand > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
