From: To: Subject: [R] R kudos Date: Friday, 14 September 2001 08:13 This is not a request for help, but I thought the readers of this mailing list might appreciate the following, anyway. I have been working with US EPA's (that's the United States Environmental Protection Agency) Office of Pesticides on a preliminary assessment for the effects of exposure to multiple organophosphate pesticides on human health (as required by the Food Quality Protection Act). This is a particularly high profile activity, and requires external review, conducted by a panel of scientists from relevant disciplines from the academy, industry, and government. This particular assessment required quite a lot of dose-response modeling (there were over 1300 datasets involved), and I put together an ad hoc package using R and tcl/tk so that scientists in our Office of Pesticides could carry out the modeling and evaluate the results. This package became part of the public record for the analysis: reviewers (and the general public; everything was distributed on an EPA web site) could run the models and view the code as part of their review. Our Science Advisory Panel review was last week, and we just got their final report. The following paragraph may be of interest to R users: The Panel also commends the EPA on the use of R (see the main EPA report for references), as it is the best way to ensure portable, open code that is freely available to all interested users, with state-of-the art algorithms for statistical calculation. R. Woodrow Setzer, Jr. Phone: (919) 541-0128 Experimental Toxicology Division Fax: (919) 541-5394 Pharmacokinetics Branch NHEERL MD-74; US EPA; RTP, NC 27711 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._