[R] Pros and Cons of R

[Wensui Liu]

agree,
i think R is more like a standard program language than SAS. however,
SAS programmer might not feel intuitive to pick up R.

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Kevin E. Thorpe
<kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Monica Pisica wrote:
>>
>> Cons:
>>
>> - R has a very steep learning curve.
>
> I don't think the learning curve is any steeper than SAS programming,
> it is just a different kind of curve.
>
>
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