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Re:Economics Nobel laureate Paul Romer is a Python programmi... by xapata on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @10:20AM (#18176173)
Some departments in the FDA require clinical trial data to be submitted in SAS formats :-/
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Re:Economics Nobel laureate Paul Romer is a Python programmi... by robterrin on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @12:46PM (#18177509)
This is a myth: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/06/fda-r-ok.html

https://www.fda.gov/downloads/forindustry/datastandards/stud...

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Re:Economics Nobel laureate Paul Romer is a Python programmi... by xapata on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @08:53PM (#18190247)
No, by the text of that same link you provided: "... origin of this fallacy is probably related to the fact that data must be submitted in the XPT "transport format" (which was originally created by SAS)." While that post goes on to say, "This [XPT] data format is now an open standard." That is somewhat disingenuous. The XPT format requires IBM Mainframe floats and other wierdness. It's not always that easy to write XPT.
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