EUC

One of my take aways from last week’s EARL conference was that R is more and more growing out of its academic roots into the enterprise. And with that come some challenges, e.g. how do I ensure consistent and systematic access to a set of R packages in an organisation, in particular when one team is providing packages to others? Two packages can help here: roxyPackage and miniCRAN. I wrote about roxyPackage earlier on this blog.

John D. Cook gave a great talk about ‘Why and how people use R’. The talk resonated with me and highlighted why R is such a great tool for end user computing. A topic which has become increasingly important in the European insurance industry. John’s main point on why people use R is that R gets the job done and I think he is spot on.