Dear All, I will soon be working with NIH and possibly FDA. Will I be able to use R or will I be forced to use SAS? Cheers, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Federico Calboli <f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:> Dear All, > > I will soon be working with NIH and possibly FDA. Will I be able to use R or > will I be forced to use SAS?"Working with" is different to "Working for". Assuming they want to work with you then they want you for your abilities and skills, and if those skills are with R then you go ahead and use R. You don't employ a bricklayer to build a wall and then tell them you want it made from reinforced concrete. Barry
On 13 Nov 2009, at 12:25, Barry Rowlingson wrote:> "Working with" is different to "Working for". Assuming they want to > work with you then they want you for your abilities and skills, and if > those skills are with R then you go ahead and use R. > > You don't employ a bricklayer to build a wall and then tell them you > want it made from reinforced concrete.While I agree in principle I am not high enough in the food chain to avoid substantial pressure, unless using R is already established. Plus I'm working 'with' people who are either working 'for' or are just a step removed from doing so. F -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:21:30 +0000 Federico Calboli <f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:> I will soon be working with NIH and possibly FDA. Will I be able to > use R or will I be forced to use SAS?You will (hopefully) be able to use R. See this document: http://www.r-project.org/doc/R-FDA.pdf -- Karl Ove Hufthammer
Federico Calboli wrote:> Dear All, > > I will soon be working with NIH and possibly FDA. Will I be able to use > R or will I be forced to use SAS? > > Cheers, > > FedericoThere are many R users are FDA, NIH, CDC, and other federal agencies. IT support tends to be a problem. Some agencies are using R 2.7, and getting packages installed in a timely manner may be difficult. Frank> > > -- > Federico C. F. Calboli > Department of Epidemiology and Public Health > Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus > Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG > > Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 > > f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk > f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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. >-- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University