Status of R on the Clinical Research market
- In general bioscience and academia, S ---> R has built over years its position of one of the industry standards
- In clinical research, however, SAS reigns par excellence
- Pharmaceutical companies, CROs and even FDA do use R “internally”.But they resist (or hesitate) to use it in submissions (to FDA)
- Clinical Programmer or Biostatistician ≝ SAS Programmer. Period