[Plr-general] pl/R bibliography entry

[Ben Madin]

G'day all,

I'd be interested in seeing it - 

On 15/11/2009, at 8:55 , Faheem Mitha wrote:

> The paper/project doesn't actually use pl/R. It is just an application of databases (specifically PostgreSQL) to GWAS studies (with SNP data). However, I do mention the potential of using pl/R (which seems woefully underused in statistical work) as something that could very usefully be used in this context.
> 
> Long story short, once the data is imported into PostgreSQL, one could use pl/R directly on the db, instead of writing it out to a file and then using R to import it in. No reason not to do this, but people don't as far as I can see.
> 
> I would be interested to hear if people are using pl/R in a bioinformatics context. I'll try to remember to send the link here if and when...

We are using it for livestock movement and disease mapping - not to any great level of sophistication, but 
* partly because we are comfortable with R and being able to use it to create really nice dynamic graphs during web page generation without having to learn any new techniques is brilliant, and
* partly because for any modelling most databases suck at probability distributions, and with PL/R it is ridiculously easy to get a distribution when you want one.

cheers

Ben



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