Re: R or SAS?

Ken Butler <butler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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a big plus for sas is the ability to do things with the data so as to
get it into shape for all the statistical functions. i spend typicall
90% of my time fixing the data, then 10% doing the actual analysis.

To that end, Perl and R would be a good combination -- since R doesn't
really do data manipulation, you need something that does.

I've always found that using SAS for both is hard to get my head
around, but that may be a reflection of my head.

Hello

I think that comparing R and SAS is not really relevant, R has no
integrated editor, R has no database, no data manipulation etc... R is
open and can be connected to several open tools as perl, mysql,
TeX/LaTeX ..., while SAS is somehow much more "self-contained" and does
almost everything related to statistical job.

I have used many statistical packages (SPSS, BMDP, SAS, Splus ...)
I spend a long time fixing data with non statistical packages.
and I am always writing commands for SAS or R with the same editor:
emacs.

Regards.

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Joseph Saint Pierre
http://cict.fr/~stpierre
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