on 01/15/2009 11:42 AM David M Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Kingsford Jones > <kingsfordjo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I hope that Marc doesn't mind, but I felt that part of his recent post >> was important enough to deserve it's own subject line rather then >> being lost in a 60-msg-long thread... > > I also wanted to thank Marc for this wealth of information on using R > in clinical trials. I particularly want to recommend the "R: > Regulatory Compliance and Validation Issues" document at > http://www.r-project.org/certification.html . Even if you're not > looking to validate R for 21CFR11 compliance, this document is an > excellent description of R's world-class software development process. > With this, and the documented use of R by the FDA itself and within > pharma companies for clinical trials, I hope we can settle the "Is R > Validated?" question at long last. Thanks go to the authors (Marc > Schwartz, Frank Harrell, Tony Rossini and Ian Francis) and the R > Foundation generally for putting this together.
Thanks kindly David. On the R Foundation side, I want to ensure appropriate credit and note the tremendous assistance specifically provided by Doug Bates, Martin Maechler, Peter Dalgaard, Kurt Hornik and John Fox. Over the past couple of years their time, support, review and edits of the document ensured that the "light at the end of the tunnel" was not an oncoming train and ensured the accuracy of the content in documenting the R development process. In addition, their critical facilitation of the R Foundation review and approval process has enabled us to have these recent discussions predicated upon a base of formal and publicly available information that should put to rest any concerns over R's quality development procedures. R is developed and maintained using a world class process, implemented by a world class team. Importantly and so that we never forget, that Core team is comprised of volunteers who have donated of their time and careers to bring us R and to enable this wonderful community. Regards, Marc ______________________________________________ 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.
