[R-sig-QA] R "Validation" on the R-SIG-QA mailing list?

Kurt Hornik hornik at ci.tuwien.ac.at
Wed May 7 07:55:10 CEST 2003


>>>>> Martin Maechler writes:

> You probably have followed at least peripherally Jim Garret's
> initiative (on R-help) to form a group of R users interested in 
> "validation" of R in the sense of "Software validation" that big
> companies, particularly pharmaceuticals, use.

I have not (yet).

> He and I know that this a bit different from the original idea
> of the R-SIG-QA list -- but then, this list has been dormant (to
> put it positively) for such a long time that I wonder if the
> "validation" crowd (12 people) shouldn't join this list and
> bring it to life.

> If I don't hear protests within the next 6 hours, I'll do the
> change (the only 6 people on our list now all live in western
> Europe).

I'd certainly be happy to see progress in this direction, so that we can
finally have papers on accuracy in R :-)

So pls go ahead.

Best
-k




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