On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:14 AM, frenchcr <frenc...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> > > Please help me persuade IT to install R on my computer! > > All suggestions welcome. > > Our IT department run scared when you mention software that they have no > working experience of. > > I need to know the pros and cons of having R on corporate desktops. > > Please no funny stuff, this is quite a serious issue for us. > > Pros and cons would be good. > > Thanks. > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/how-do-i-persuade-IT-to-install-R-on-PCs----...and-should-I----tp26464163p26464163.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > I requested to have R installed at work. For me it helped that I have a lot of non-standard technical packages anyway that are off radar for support from the IT department anyway - they only support for original install rights anyway. They wanted to know what the licence was - GPL is recognised and they don't run a mile. I did my homework and found some other people on a company research site were already using R so I could use that as justification. I had some code ready to run that could produce graphs easily that are very hard to do in Excel and require a lot of custom code (and even then aren't good). We do use some other stats packages anyway and are being encouraged to use proper packages rather than kludging through in Excel References like this (below) have been circulated at work which adds weight to arguments that we should not just accept the 'standard' Office install. Although I did not use this in my justification. @ARTICLE{, author = {B.D. McCullough and David A. Heiser}, title = {On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 2007}, journal = {Computational Statistics \& Data Analysis}, year = {2008}, volume = {52}, pages = {4570--4578}, number = {10} } ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2008.03.004) I use R via TINN-R (http://www.sciviews.org/Tinn-R/) on a Windows desktop. Stephen [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
