Development and Current Practice in Using R at Statistics Austria
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: The popularity of R is increasing in national statistical offices not only for simulation tasks. Nowadays R is also used in the production process. A lot of new features for various tasks in official statistics have been developed over the last years and these features are freely available in the form of add-on package. In this contribution we first give an outline of the use of R at Statistics Austria. Discussed is the necessary infrastructure according to the R-installation, the teaching of employees and the support provided to the staff who use R in their daily work. In the second part, the R developments from the methods unit at Statistics Austria are summarised. The developed packages include methods for data pre-processing (e.g imputation) up to packages for the final dissemination of data including packages for statistical disclosure control, estimation of indicators and the visualisation of results.
Institutions: Statistics Austria, TU Wien
Language: English
Topic: Data Analysis with R
Subfield: Statistics and Probability
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W173059061