G'day Marc, On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:11:48 -0500 Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 16:02 +0200, Giovanni Parrinello wrote: > > Dear All, > > discussing with a statistician of a pharmaceutical company I > > received this answer about the statistical package that I have > > planned to use: > > > > As R is not a validated software package, we would like to ask if > > it would rather be possible for you to use SAS, SPSS or another > > approved statistical software system. > > > > Could someone suggest me a 'polite' answer? > > TIA > > Giovanni > > > > The polite answer is that there is no such thing as 'FDA approved' > software for conducting clinical trials. The FDA does not approve, > validate or otherwise endorse software. I like this one. :) My polite answer would have been: "Sure, can do. If you pay for the license of the finally agreed upon statistical software system and pay for the time it takes me to learn it so that I can do the analysis using that system instead of R." Most clients I know would withdraw such requests if they notice that it will probably double or triple their bill. ;-) Cheers, Berwin ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.