Simon Pickett <simon.pick...@bto.org> wrote >My institute uses SAS religiously, I am the only R "heathen". > >I have resisted learning to use SAS because I dont see the point after years >of using R and I like being able to do everything using one program. >However, my colleagues maintain that SAS is "better" for programming without >really ever giving me a good reason why other than memory issues. > >dont want to hi-jack the thread but would be interested in hearing some >other views, especially since my organisation spends (wastes?) alot of money >every year on SAS licences... >
I think that, to find out what SAS can do that R can't, or vice versa, you'd have to ask both SAS-L and R-help for some challenging data manipulation problems. Asking only on R-help, you will (naturally) get people who use R a lot and like it, and have figured out ways to do things with it. Similarly if you asked only on SAS-L, you will find people who use SAS. I have read a couple of statistics books where the authors use both, because they find SAS easier for some things (principally data manipulation and textual output) and R easier for others (especially fancy statistics and graphics). Peter Peter L. Flom, PhD Statistical Consultant www DOT peterflomconsulting DOT com ______________________________________________ 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.
