R help - Apr 2012 - Organizations where IT has approved the use of R software

Hi Gang,

I realize this post is not directly related to programing issues with R,
however, it appears this may be the best place to ask my question.  

I am putting forward a request that R be considered "approved"
software in
my organization.  Never an easy task, this is made much more difficult given
that it is open source software (sends the IT gang into little fits).  So, I
am compiling a list of organizations (Universities, goverment,
industry,etc.) that are using R and whose IT department considers it
approved software.

If you belong to such an organization could you please let me know? If you
know of organizations that this applies to, but are not directly affiliated
with them I would still be interested but please just let me know which of
these two cases your response fits into.

Thanks in advance.

Lynn

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Slightly on topic, just yesterday, the CFPB announced they'll be using
R in their work: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/applications/

Depending on the scale of your organization, it may not be the
open-source nature that's quite the problem of the "IT Gang" but
rather the support (or lack thereof) that's implied by the default
startup message. Just like the GNU/Linux world, there exist
commercially supported versions that help to fill this gap: if that's
the case, and y'all can afford it, some companies have taken
advantage of the support contracts provided by Revolution Analytics
(whom you can google).

To your question, I'd imagine almost all universities support R to one
degree or another, many hosting CRAN mirrors (or the CRAN master at WU
Wien or the WinBuilder at TU Dortmund ). In industry, many
pharmaceutical and financial firms are using R more and more (the blog
linked above records these stories nicely) -- we have many users on
this list who are associated with major medical institutions as well.
Perhaps you can state your general line of work and folks in the same
field will come along to share "war stories."

Michael

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:04 PM, lynnland <lynn.landriault at ontario.ca>
wrote:
> Hi Gang,
>
> I realize this post is not directly related to programing issues with R,
> however, it appears this may be the best place to ask my question.
>
> I am putting forward a request that R be considered "approved"
software in
> my organization. ?Never an easy task, this is made much more difficult
given
> that it is open source software (sends the IT gang into little fits). ?So,
I
> am compiling a list of organizations (Universities, goverment,
> industry,etc.) that are using R and whose IT department considers it
> approved software.
>
> If you belong to such an organization could you please let me know? If you
> know of organizations that this applies to, but are not directly affiliated
> with them I would still be interested but please just let me know which of
> these two cases your response fits into.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Lynn
>
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It's hard to respond without making it seem like an advertisement for
Revolution Analytics, but helping companies and government
organizations standardize on R (specifically, Revolution R) for data
analysis is something we specialize in. The (partial) list of our
customers using Revolution R at

http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/aboutus/our-customers.php

may be useful fodder for your IT group, as may be this list of
applications companies have done with R:

http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/what-is-open-source-r/companies-using-r.php

The section on the Revolutions blog that Michael Weylandt pointed to
(http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/applications/) may also be useful
to you.

If you'd like to contact me directly, I'd be happy to connect you with
some folks here at Revolution Analytics that can provide direct help
on getting R adopted at your organization.

Hope this is useful to you,
# David Smith

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:04, lynnland <lynn.landriault at ontario.ca>
wrote:
>
> Hi Gang,
>
> I realize this post is not directly related to programing issues with R,
> however, it appears this may be the best place to ask my question.
>
> I am putting forward a request that R be considered "approved"
software in
> my organization. ?Never an easy task, this is made much more difficult
given
> that it is open source software (sends the IT gang into little fits). ?So,
I
> am compiling a list of organizations (Universities, goverment,
> industry,etc.) that are using R and whose IT department considers it
> approved software.
>
> If you belong to such an organization could you please let me know? If you
> know of organizations that this applies to, but are not directly affiliated
> with them I would still be interested but please just let me know which of
> these two cases your response fits into.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Lynn
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VP of Marketing, Revolution Analytics? http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com
Tel: +1 (650) 646-9523 (Palo Alto, CA, USA)

lynnland <lynn.landriault <at> ontario.ca> writes:

> I am putting forward a request that R be considered "approved"
software in
> my organization.  Never an easy task, this is made much more difficult
given
> that it is open source software (sends the IT gang into little fits).  So,
I
> am compiling a list of organizations (Universities, goverment,
> industry,etc.) that are using R and whose IT department considers it
> approved software.
> 
Have you seen this from the archives?

http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help at r-project.org/msg45768.html

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Michael Bibo
<michael_bibo at health.qld.gov.au> wrote:
> Have you seen this from the archives?
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help at r-project.org/msg45768.html
>
In addition see [1], which highlights the likes of Google, Merck or
Stanford University.

Liviu

[1] http://www.r-project.org/foundation/memberlist.html

Hi All,

Thanks for all the responses and interest. 

I was aware of Revolution Analytics and had seen some of the other links but
some were new.  The list received should be of great help.  Given the R
courses that used to be offered through the USGS site, I would assume they
are using it but haven't received a response from them yet to the email I
sent inquiring.

The organization in question is one of the provincial Natural Resources
Ministries in Canada.    


Cheers

Lynn

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