If anyone has a list of application areas where there is extensive use of R, I'd like to hear of it. My current short list is: Bioinformatics Epidemiology Geophysics Agriculture and crop science John Maindonald Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University. john.maindonald at anu.edu.au
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 06:35:00 +1100, "John Maindonald" wrote:> If anyone has a list of application areas where there is > extensive use of R, I'd like to hear of it. My current > short list is: > > Bioinformatics > Epidemiology > Geophysics > Agriculture and crop scienceCheminformatics and QSAR Rajarshi Guha <rxg218 at psu.edu> <http://jijo.cjb.net>
Population biology It's dominated by matlab, but I see R used more and more. http://popstudies.stanford.edu/summer_course.html Chris -- ----------------- Chris Stubben Los Alamos National Lab BioScience Division MS M888 Los Alamos, NM 87545
You could probably add: - Fisheries modelling - Oceanography Although there is still resistance of other software there, R is gaining more and more users in these fields. Best, Philippe Grosjean P.S.: if you need actual examples, just ask... ;-) John Maindonald wrote:> If anyone has a list of application areas where there is > extensive use of R, I'd like to hear of it. My current > short list is: > > Bioinformatics > Epidemiology > Geophysics > Agriculture and crop science > > John Maindonald > Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University. > john.maindonald at anu.edu.au > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >
If it hasn't been mentioned yet, and if you want to consider this as a separate discipline from the ones mentioned below, we also use it for simulation modeling and risk analysis. Francisco>From: "John Maindonald" <john.maindonald at anu.edu.au> >To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch >Subject: [R] In which application areas is R used? >Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 06:35:00 +1100 (EST) > >If anyone has a list of application areas where there is >extensive use of R, I'd like to hear of it. My current >short list is: > >Bioinformatics >Epidemiology >Geophysics >Agriculture and crop science > >John Maindonald >Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University. >john.maindonald at anu.edu.au > >______________________________________________ >R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide! >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Please don't forget engineering! (e.g. fatigue and reliability - censored regression and survival; quantitative nondestructive evaluation - GLM) Charles Annis, P.E. Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of John Maindonald Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 2:35 PM To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] In which application areas is R used? If anyone has a list of application areas where there is extensive use of R, I'd like to hear of it. My current short list is: Bioinformatics Epidemiology Geophysics Agriculture and crop science John Maindonald Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University. john.maindonald at anu.edu.au ______________________________________________ R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Define "extensive." I think your answers depend on your definition. I know a bunch of folks in pharmaceutical preclinical R&D who use R for all sorts of stuff (analysis and visualization of tox and efficacy animal studies, dose/response modeling, PK work, IC50 determination, stability data analysis, etc.). Is "bunch" a majority? I strongly doubt that it's near. Is it 5%, 10%, 30% ?? Dunno. Excel is still the Big Boy in most of these arenas I would bet. But I would also bet that there are at least 1 or 2 folks in dozens of companies who use R in for these things. Is there a subtext to your query? -- i.e. are you trying to make an argument for something? -- Bert> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of John Maindonald > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 11:35 AM > To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] In which application areas is R used? > > If anyone has a list of application areas where there is > extensive use of R, I'd like to hear of it. My current > short list is: > > Bioinformatics > Epidemiology > Geophysics > Agriculture and crop science > > John Maindonald > Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University. > john.maindonald at anu.edu.au > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >
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In this context "extensive" might be use of R in at least maybe 2% or 5% of the published analyses in the area, enough to make waves and stir awareness. The immediate subtext is the demand of a book publisher for a list of journals to which a new edition of a certain book might be sent for review, and for a list of conferences where it might be given exposure. For myself, in the medium to longer term, I am more interested in other subtexts such as you mention, to which the answer might have relevance. I've wondered what support there'd be for starting a database of bibliographic information on papers where R was used for the analysis. Authors might supply the information, or readers of a paper suggest its addition to the database. Once well populated, this would provide a useful indication of the range of application areas and journals where R is finding use. [Or has someone, somewhere, already started such a database?] Finance and biostatistics are obvious areas that I'd omitted. Other areas drawn to my attention have been telephony and electronic networks, solid state etc manufacturing, computer system performance, oceanography and fisheries research, risk analysis, process engineering and marketing. (I hope my summaries are acceptably accurate). I'm not sure what force these other respondents have given the word "extensive". John Maindonald Mathematical Sciences Institute Australian National University. john.maindonald at anu.edu.au Berton Gunter wrote:> Define "extensive." > > I think your answers depend on your definition. I know a bunch of folksin pharmaceutical preclinical R&D who use R for all sorts of stuff (analysis and visualization of tox and efficacy animal studies, dose/response modeling, PK work, IC50 determination, stability data analysis, etc.). Is "bunch" a majority? I strongly doubt that it's near. Is it 5%, 10%, 30% ?? Dunno. Excel is still the Big Boy in most of these arenas I would bet. But I would also bet that there are at least 1 or 2 folks in dozens of companies who use R in for these things.> > Is there a subtext to your query? -- i.e. are you trying to make anargument for something?> > -- Bert > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch >> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.c