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Greetings all, This isn't a request for help, but I thought the following article from the New York Times would be of interest to you all. Enjoy! Adam *Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power* By ASHLEE VANCE Published ONLINE: January 6, 2009 URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html A version of this article appeared in print edition on

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, ajay ohri <ajayohri at yahoo.com> wrote: > > FYI..not a R -Help Topic, buy I dont know which list to post discussions like this. > Regards, > Ajay > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: ajay ohri <ajayohri at yahoo.com> > Date: Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:46 AM > Subject: Re: R "Threatens" SAS, According to

Dear Lists, This is an off topic (OT ). I recently took Anne Milley's interview .In Part 1 of the interview , Anne talks about SAS, WPS, other softwares she studied like SPSS,.She also talks about the difference between small and big companies , what sets SAS apart and the famous licensing model of SAS Interview – Anne Milley, SAS Part 1<http://smartdatacollective.com/Home/16909>

Hi List, This is a slightly non technical ,hence OT topic. Here is an Interview with Anne Milley of the SAS Institute. Anne Milley is director of product marketing, SAS Institute . In part 2 of the interview Anne talks of immigration in technology areas, open source networks ,how she misses coding ,and software as a service especially SAS Institute’s offering . She also reveals some preview on

A SAS spokesperson has confirmed to this blog that they have invested in the R ?Core project to help build next generation algorithms . Details are sketchy but indications of some shift on cloud hosted SAS ,called SaaS are emerging.Also includes some details on Jim Davis ,SVP SAS marketing's statement on BI and Anne Milley having a new assignment within SAS Institute. Read more here -

R and its GUI Rattle helped me establish a data mining consulting startup on my own, without taking bank credit . People I met on the forum and especially books like rforsasandspssusers.com/ <http://rforsasandspssusers.com/> helped me ease the transition to the new Object Oriented method from the earlier - even a monkey can create shakespeare if he types enough kind of analytics software.

Hi, I am a new user of R 2.8.1. I use Tinn-R for code editing. I use a windows 2003 system with 1 GB RAM. I am interested to generate dashboard and reports based on data from MS Access. These reports need to be posted on a weekly basis to the web. The reporting interface should provide facilities for "what if" scenarios. Is it possible to interface R analysis results to good open

Ashlee Vance's article on R in the New York Times. This is typical of the New York Times. Because they get to coast on the prestige and reputation of their brand , they have a history of just this sort of journalistic sloppiness. Whether it's the author or the editor at fault doesn't really matter, they do this screw-up all the time. Look, if you write an article on the first page of

A colleague is receiving some data from another person. That person reads the data in SAS and it takes 30s and uses 64k RAM. That person then tries to read the data in R and it takes 10 minutes and uses a gigabyte of RAM. Person then goes on to say: It's not that I think SAS is such great software, it's not. But I really hate badly designed software. R is designed by

Hi, Where can I find information ( freely available on the Internet , and also books or other sources ) on how having sampling weights changes the calculation of the standard error (of means and proportions)? How good is R for this type of procedure? And SAS? thanks Robert [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/sas-warms-to-open-source-one-letter-at-a-time/ SAS Warms to Open-Source One Letter at a TimeBy ASHLEE VANCE<http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/author/ashlee-vance/> The SAS Institute has borrowed a page from Sesame Street. It is now sponsoring the letter 'R.' Last month, I wrote an

I am one of only 5 or 6 people in my organization making the effort to include R/Splus as an analysis tool in everyday work - the rest of my colleagues use SAS exclusively. Today, one of them made the assertion that he believes the numerical algorithms in SAS are superior to those in Splus and R -- ie, optimization routines are faster in SAS, the SAS Institute has teams of excellent numerical

Dear R users, Biostatistics Denmark would like to annouce the availability of the new utility: sas2R --- a SAS to R parser. For almost 40 years SAS has been the primary tool for statisticians worldwide and its easy-to-learn syntax, unsurpassed graphical system, powerful macro language and recent graphical user interfaces have made SAS the number one statistical software choice for both beginners

dear r-experts: I need to speed up my monte-carlo simulations. my code is written in R (and it was also the cause of my many questions here over the last few days). my code is almost all matrix/vector algebra on panel data sets---long-difference, fixed-effects, blundell-bond, etc.. the data set is about 10MB, so 1GB per CPU core should be plenty for my operations, and with $10/GB of

I'm a SAS user who is slowly but surely migrating over to R. I'm trying to find the proper code to analyze a nested design. I have four classification variables, L (fixed), A (random within L), D (random within L), and I (random within L). The model I'm interested in is L A(L) D(L) I(L) A:D:I(L), where the interaction is interpreted as the lack-of-fit term. I've tried

Is anyone in the leadership of the R-project going to contact the New York Times and clarify that the article gave remarkably short shrift to the people who designed the user interface for R, to a large extent AT&T researchers from an earlier generation? It would be the appropriate thing to do. The R team did not develop the user interface for R, the designers of the S programming language

My institute has been heavily dependent on SAS for the past while, and SAS is starting to charge us a very deep amount for license renewal. Since we are a non-profit organization that is definitely not sustainable. The team is brainstorming possibility of switching to R, at least gradually. I am talking about the entire institute with considerable number of analysts using SAS their entire

Hi All, I've been fiddling around with various ways to estimate the popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, JMP, Minitab, Statistica, Systat, BMDP, S-PLUS, R-PLUS and Revolution R. It's not an easy task. You can see what I've come up with so far at http://r4stats.com/popularity . I'm sure people will have plenty of ideas on how to improve this, so please let me know what you think.

Alternate title: How can I persuade my students that R is for them? Alternate title: Can R replace SAS, SPSS or Stata for clinicians? I am teaching introductory statistics to twelve physicians and two veterinarians who have enrolled in a Mentored Clinical Research Training Program. My course is the first in a sequence of three. We (the instructors of this sequence) chose to teach R rather than

Hi all there Can some one clarify me on this issue, features wise which is better R or SAS, leaving the commerical aspect associated with it. I suppose there are few people who have worked on both R and SAS and wish they would be able to help me in deciding on this. THank you for the help --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]