Bert, There is a lesson here. Just as intolerance of any statistical analysis program (or system) other than SAS should lead to our being drive crazy, so to should intolerance of any statistical analysis program (or system) other than R. John
>>> Dieter Menne <dieter.me...@menne-biomed.de> 2/19/2010 3:46 AM >>> Bert, I like your comments. There is one issue, however, that drives me crazy whenever I meet a customer asking "You are not using SAS? Too bad, we need validated results." Bert Gunter wrote: > > ... > Also to reiterate, it's not only > statistical/reporting functionality but even more the integration into the > existing clinical database systems that would have to be rewritten **and > validated**. > > Implicitly: Even if you let your cat enter SAS code, the results are correct, because they SAS is validated. Dieter -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Use-of-R-in-clinical-trials-tp1559402p1561317.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. Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for th...{{dropped:6}} ______________________________________________ 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.