[R] things that are difficult/impossible to do in SAS or SPSS but simple in R

[Peter Dalgaard]

Max Kuhn wrote:
> Factors have huge benefits over character data in SAS. For a series
> regulatory filings, I had miles of SAS code to compute KxK tables
> where all the cells must show up. For example, if one of the levels of
> one of the variables was never observed, the corresponding row or
> column would not show up in proc freq. The basic way around this was
> to get all possible combinations of the variables and assign each cell
> to have a row count of 0.00000001. Then you would merge this data with
> the real counts. The missing row/columns would show up since they had
> data, but it was below the printing threshold of proc freq. Hoepfully,
> they have added a feature to do this.
>
>   
I could have sworn that this was a fluke and that it would work if you
put a user-defined format on the classification variable, but no go....
I can't find anything that does this, neither in PROC FREQ nor PROC
TABULATE.



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