and I think the WPS to R bridge is doing quite well, and the SAS to R bridge is likely to debut very very soon. Phil Rack from www.minequest.com is leading this.
WPS is an ideal mix for R because it is great for data mining ,cleaning and manipulation thus leaving R for the cleaned, data for the stats procedures.At 600 bucks an annual license its way way cheaper than any other software (apart from..) I don't see SAS official support to R anytime soon given historic behavior. I myself have proposed R to be in a cloud computing network so as to cope with the relative inefficiency in processing bigger files as compared to other "mainstream "and expensive softwares. Bigger corporate users are the way R will beak in and commercial deployment will help some initial pains that all R transitions feel (especially the ones working on a live corporate projects and have to learn on their own time on break neck speed, because the annual license budget just got cut).however the R stats packages do seem much more robust than the GIGO click and point softwares. http://decisionstats.com/2008/the-ohri-framework-data-mining-on-demand/ On 8/9/08, Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 08/09/2008 12:45 PM Marc Schwartz wrote: > >> on 08/09/2008 12:13 PM Charles C. Berry wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Kenn Konstabel wrote: >>> >>> There's more to this trend: SPSS and Statistica now advertise "R >>>> language >>>> support" : >>>> >>>> http://www.statsoft.com/industries/Rlanguage.htm >>>> http://www.spss.com/spssdirections/na/sessions.cfm?sessionType=2 >>>> >>> >>> >>> If you can't beat R, join R. >>> >> >> "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." >> >> ;-) >> >> >> Should someone start a pool on when SAS will offer 'R language support' >>> ?? >>> >> >> It is already in place, albeit not from Cary: >> >> http://www.minequest.com/ >> >> See the link for "A Bridge to R for SAS Users". >> >> That product might put an interesting spin on: >> >> > fortune(28) >> >> Jim Gustafsson: I would like to put my SAS-code into R. Could I do >> that, if yes, how? >> Frank Harrell: Just reverse the procedure you use when you put R code >> into SAS. ;) >> -- Jim Gustafsson and Frank Harrell >> R-help (February 2004) >> >> >> Their WPS product has been getting a fair amount of attention, at least >> for those needing mostly "Base" and not "Stat" functionality at >> substantially less cost than the SAS commercial license pricing. >> > > Correction. WPS is actually a product of "Word Programming", which is at: > > http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/products/wps > > though at the moment, I am having trouble getting to their web page. There > is a Wikipedia page here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Programming_System > > Minequest is providing SAS to WPS related consulting services. > > Marc > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
