About...

PING is a set (library) of macro/function utilities developped in R/SAS for the implementation of statistical processes in production environments.

PING implementation started in April 2016 and it is still ongoing. Its main contributors are:

• Jacopo Grazzini (gjacopo)
• Marina Grillo (marinapippi)
• Pierre Lamarche (pierre-lamarche)
• Matyas Meszaros (mmatyi)
• Veronica Nica (Nica87)
• ...

Find out more about PING raison d'être in the following publication:

• Grazzini J. and Lamarche P. (2017): Production of social statistics... goes social!, in Proc. New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics.

note: PING is a recursive acronym which stands for: Production Is Not GSAST!