[R] SAS to R translator for particular procedures

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> On Fri, 12 Nov 99 16:07:33 EST, Bill Paterson <BAD305 at ukcc.uky.edu> said:

    BillP> I am interested in writing a SAS to R translator that would take
    BillP> SAS code for a particular package (ie. Proc IML - interactive
    BillP> matrix language) and convert it to R. A primary motivation for
    BillP> such a tool would be an escape from proprietary license license
    BillP> fees and labor savings from not having to translate character by
    BillP> character manually.  Any comments and suggestions would be
    BillP> appreciated.

Go ahead!!
I hope you get help from people on the R-help list.

This would be really useful, since there still seems to be a lot of people
in some user communities
who rather "publish" SAS/IML than S (here meant as language, with R and
S-plus as dialects). 

We also may find that R needs new features and many(?) of us will help you with
some of these.

Probably you should aim for something that (in the beginning) works for
about 90% of the cases,
but make sure that one gets warnings (and the original SAS code as R
comments) for the remaining 10% ...

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