Hi Matthew, something else came to my mind: why don't you post something similar to the newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.stat.spss comp.soft-sys.sas
R-help is obviously biased and maybe there are things "we" (the R community) are just missing. Maybe there are things possible in SPSS or SAS which R people are not aware of? I would be really curious what SPSS or SAS users could give as an argument why they prefer their software. All the best, Roland Matthew Keller wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm giving a talk in a few days to a group of psychology faculty and > grad students re the R statistical language. Most people in my dept. > use SAS or SPSS. It occurred to me that it would be nice to have a few > concrete examples of things that are fairly straightforward to do in R > but that are difficult or impossible to do in SAS or SPSS. However, it > has been so long since I have used either of those commercial products > that I am drawing a blank. I've searched the forums and web for a list > and came up with just Bob Muenchen's comparison of general procedures > and Patrick Burns' overview of the three. Neither of these give > concrete examples of statistical problems that are easily solved in R > but not the commercial packages. > > Can anyone more familiar with SAS or SPSS think of some examples of > problems that they couldn't do in one of those packages but that could > be done easily in R? Similarly, if there are any examples of the > converse I would also be interested to know. > > Best, > > Matt > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
