I should elaborate the situation a bit more. We store our data in UNIX and have been using UNIX SAS for our work. My Biostat dept has 40 SAS users from which at most 10 also use R. The Epi/Grad Students/Investigators combine for another 30-40 not-so-frequent SAS users let alone R. So we are talking about 80 folks/workhorses in the entire institute.
One of my thoughts is to break up the Biostat group into two so that one uses R solely to reduce the number of licences. IMHO, the pro is to worry a smaller group of users. However, the cons will be who to be assigned to respective group. >A lot will depend on what sort of work you are doing. The main >problem we've experienced is that R does not easily handle very >large datasets on standard PC hardware. We still do some >processing with SAS in those cases, though we've been able to >reduce the number of SAS licenses we need. -- Mike Prager, NOAA, Beaufort, NC * Opinions expressed are personal and not represented otherwise. * Any use of tradenames does not constitute a NOAA endorsement. ______________________________________________ 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. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Entire-Organization-Switching-from-SAS-to-R---Any-experience--tp24526037p24536108.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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.
