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M. Templ, A. Kowarik, B. Meindl:
"Development and Current Practice in Using R at Statistics Austria";
Romanian Statistical Review, 2 (2014), 173 - 184.

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 Aus-
tria. 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.

Official Statistics, Computational Statistics, R

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