TAS::75 0849::TAS Topic 260: RapidStat: A Hybrid of Spreadsheets and Graphical La

开发功能齐全的RapidStat产品，使其易于将用R和其他编程语言编写的统计计算引擎与易于使用的图形用户界面（GUI）和统计环境连接在一起。目标是制作一个可行的商业产品，为统计和研究界的程序员和非程序员提供好处。RapidStat可以让不了解并行处理的用户使用高性能计算，这一点非常重要，因为癌症研究临床试验中使用的数据集的单个统计测试可能需要几个小时才能使用传统服务器执行。RapidStat？的开发环境是Excel的插件，这将使用户对产品感到舒适，并减少使用该技术的障碍。

Develop full-featured RapidStat product to make it easy to link together statistical computation engines written in R and other programming languages and statistical environments with easy-to-use Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). The goal is to produce a viable commercial product which will provide benefits for both programmers and non-programmers in the statistical and research communities. RapidStat can empower users with no knowledge of parallel processing to use high performance computing, which is significant given that a single statistical test of data sets used in clinical trials for cancer research can take hours to execute with conventional servers. RapidStat¿s development environment is a plug in to Excel which will make users feel comfortable with the product and reduce impediments to using the technology.