On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Daniel Viar <dan.v...@gmail.com> wrote: > I currently use R at work "under the radar", but there's a chance I > could loose that access. I'd like to get our company to feel > comfortable with open source and R in particular. Does anyone have > any experience with their company's IT department and management that > they would be willing to share? How does one get an all Microsoft > shop on board with allowing users to user R? I know about the recent > NY Times article and recent news. I'm afraid I may need some case > studies or examples of what other companies have done.
In many cases your IT department will feel secure with R if there's a company behind it to offer technical support and offer a "throat to choke" if problems arise. (Whether it's the former or the latter that is more significant depends on the company.) There are some companies out there that offer support subscriptions to R, including the one I work for. If you work in a regulated environment (such as clinical pharma with 21CFR11, or finance with Sarbanes-Oxley), there may also be some nervousness about whether R can be compliant. It almost certainly is, but it often needs to be validated in your own environment. I wrote about this recently (from the perspective of FDA validation) at http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2009/01/analyzing-clinical-trial-data-with-r.html . In many companies IT departments are getting comfortable with relying on FOSS applications, but the real successes (Linux, Apache, MySQL, ...) have come when there's a commercial company to back up the open source community. # David Smith -- David M Smith <da...@revolution-computing.com> Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Seattle, USA) ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.