[R] Entire Organization Switching from SAS to R - Any experience?

[David Winsemius]

On Jul 16, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Kum-Hoe Hwang wrote:

> I work for a research institute. I have used R for several years.
> I think there are some good and bad sides followings:
>
> Good sides are: I can use new statistical methods from R. no license  
> fee..
>
> Bad sides are : physical memory in PC is an obstacle (max. 3GB),

The limits are not that small on either Mac OS X or Linux systems.

> some
> package of R is still being developed(unstable-not really a  
> problem), kind
> manual( this will be OK if you have training from some R company)
>
> k Hwang
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Frank E Harrell Jr <
> f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>
>> Kel Lam wrote:
>>
>>> My institute has been heavily dependent on SAS for the past while,  
>>> and
>>> SAS is starting to charge us a very deep amount for license renewal.
>>> Since we are a non-profit organization that is definitely not
>>> sustainable.  The team is brainstorming possibility of switching  
>>> to R,
>>> at least gradually.  I am talking about the entire institute with
>>> considerable number of analysts using SAS their entire career.
>>> There’s a handful of us using R regularly.  What kind of problems  
>>> and
>>> challenges have you faced?  Any insight is much appreciated.  Thank
>>> you very much!
>>>
>>> Kelvin
>>>
>>
>> One of your challenges will be that with the increased productivity  
>> of the
>> team you will have time for more intellectually challenging  
>> problems.  That
>> frustrates some people.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>> --
>> Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
>>                    Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt  
>> University
>>
>> ______________________________________________
> Kum-Hoe Hwang, Ph.D.
>
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT