[R] SAS or R software

[Romain François]

Hello,

I think you'll get some bias if you do a survey on what software is 
better SAS or R in a R mailing list.

Personnaly, what I like in R is :
    - the fact to you have to know what you are doing to do it,
    - the graphic potential is outstanding (only limited by the 
imagination of the user, just check the graph on the web page of R : 
http://www.r-project.org/ and try to do so with SAS, goooood luck !! )
    - the mailing list is great
    - and many many many other things

what I like in SAS :
    - nothing

So in my opinion, leaving or considering the commercial aspect (but that 
counts too) I think there is no competition.

Something else, go on http://www.sas.com/ and search for the word 
"statistic", missing, isn't it curious for a statistical software ?


neela v a écrit :

>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
>  
>
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