I think that Marc S. has provided some of the better refs. for R and its usage
in
commercial and organizational settings.
However, the kinds of bloody-minded "We're going to insist you use
inappropriate software
because we are idiots" messages are not news to many of us. Duncan points out
that
Dear Gina
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:28 AM, McAllister, Gina
wrote:
> S-plus or any other stats programme. Can anyone suggest anything or
> send me a suitable email?
>
This issue pops up regularly on r-help, so there are many ideas
available in the ML archives. One of my favourite answers comes
On Jun 17, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Frank E Harrell Jr
> wrote:
>> Pardon my english but you're working for idiots. I'd look elsewhere if
>> there are other options. IT departments should be here to help get things
>> done, not to help preven
Worst case scenario you can install R as a user as well, you don't
need administration rights. Regarding data analysis in Excel :
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~bdm25/excel2007.pdf : peer reviewed
Other sources :
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/ec/~nhunt/pottel.pdf
http://www.forecastingprinciples.com/f
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Frank E Harrell Jr
wrote:
> Pardon my english but you're working for idiots. I'd look elsewhere if
> there are other options. IT departments should be here to help get things
> done, not to help prevent good work from being done.
Just because the IT security gu
Unfortunately this is how things work in the real world. I suspect the reason
so many people keep getting in trouble for taking classified information home
is because they can not get any work done on the office computer due to things
like this.
Many of the places I've worked have not permuted
Pardon my english but you're working for idiots. I'd look elsewhere if
there are other options. IT departments should be here to help get
things done, not to help prevent good work from being done.
Frank
On 06/17/2010 04:28 AM, McAllister, Gina wrote:
I have recently started a new job at an
On 17/06/2010 10:26 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
I think there is something else going on here, since no "security" organization
would accept an email from a nonexistent organization as justification for adding
software that they are suspicious of to their system.
The R Foundation is not "non
On Jun 17, 2010, at 4:28 AM, McAllister, Gina wrote:
> I have recently started a new job at an NHS hospital in Scotland. Since
> I took up this post 6 months ago I have had an ongoing dispute with the
> IT secutiry dept. who refuse to install R on my computer. I previously
> worked in another br
I think there is something else going on here, since no "security" organization
would accept an email from a nonexistent organization as justification for
adding software that they are suspicious of to their system.
On the other hand, if you can't figure out what is really going on, and you can
I have recently started a new job at an NHS hospital in Scotland. Since
I took up this post 6 months ago I have had an ongoing dispute with the
IT secutiry dept. who refuse to install R on my computer. I previously
worked in another branch of the NHS where R was widely used and yet
there is nothi
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