[R] Reasons to Use R [Broadcast]

[Wensui Liu]

Andy,
I totally agree with you. Money should be spent on the people working
hard instead of on the fancy software. But in real life, it is the
opposite. ^_^.

On 4/9/07, Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw at merck.com> wrote:
> I've probably been away from SAS for too long... we've recently tried to
> get SAS on our 64-bit Linux boxes (because SAS on PC is not sufficient
> for some of my colleagues who need it).  I was shocked by the quote for
> our 28-core Scyld cluster--- the annual fee was a few times the total
> cost of our hardware.  We ended up buying a new quad 3GHz Opterons box
> with 32GB ram just so that the fee for SAS on such a box would be more
> tolerable.  It just boggles my mind that the right to use SAS for a year
> is about the price of a nice four-bedroom house (near SAS Institute!).
> I don't understand people who rather pay that kind of price for the
> software, instead of spending the money on state-of-the-art hardware and
> save more than a bundle.
>
> Just my $0.02...
> Andy
>
> From: Jorge Cornejo-Donoso
> >
> > I have a Dell with 2 Intel XEON 3.0 procesors and 2GB of ram....
> > The problem is the DB size.
> >
> > -----Mensaje original-----
> > De: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendieck at gmail.com]
> > Enviado el: Lunes, 09 de Abril de 2007 11:28
> > Para: Jorge Cornejo-Donoso
> > CC: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Asunto: Re: [R] Reasons to Use R
> >
> > Have you tried 64 bit machines with larger memory or do you
> > mean that you can't use R on your current machines?
> >
> > Also have you tried S-Plus?  Will that work for you? The
> > transition from that to R would be less than from SAS to R.
> >
> > On 4/9/07, Jorge Cornejo-Donoso <jorgecornejo at uach.cl> wrote:
> > > tha s9ze of db is an issue with R. We are still using SAS because R
> > > can't handle own db, and of couse we don't want to sacrify
> > resolution,
> > > because the data collection is expensive (at least in fisheries and
> > > oceagraphy), so.. I think that R need to improve the use of big DBs.
> > > Now I only can use R for graph preparation and some data
> > analisis, but
> > > we can't do the main work on R, abd that is really sad.
> > >
> >
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WenSui Liu
A lousy statistician who happens to know a little programming
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