and I think the WPS to R bridge is doing quite well, and the SAS to R bridge
is likely to debut very very soon. Phil Rack from www.minequest.com is
leading this.

WPS is an ideal mix for R because it is great for data mining ,cleaning and
manipulation thus leaving R for the cleaned, data for the stats
procedures.At 600 bucks an annual license its way way cheaper than any other
software (apart from..)

I don't see SAS official support to R anytime soon given historic behavior.

I myself have proposed R to be in a cloud computing network  so as to cope
with the relative inefficiency in processing bigger files as compared to
other "mainstream "and expensive softwares. Bigger corporate users are the
way R will beak in and commercial deployment will help some initial pains
that all R transitions feel (especially the ones working on a live corporate
projects and have to learn on their own time on break neck speed, because
the annual license budget just got cut).however the R stats packages do seem
much more robust than the GIGO click and point softwares.

http://decisionstats.com/2008/the-ohri-framework-data-mining-on-demand/





On 8/9/08, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> on 08/09/2008 12:45 PM Marc Schwartz wrote:
>
>> on 08/09/2008 12:13 PM Charles C. Berry wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Kenn Konstabel wrote:
>>>
>>>  There's more to this trend: SPSS and Statistica now advertise "R
>>>> language
>>>> support" :
>>>>
>>>> http://www.statsoft.com/industries/Rlanguage.htm
>>>> http://www.spss.com/spssdirections/na/sessions.cfm?sessionType=2
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If you can't beat R, join R.
>>>
>>
>> "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated."
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>>
>>  Should someone start a pool on when SAS will offer 'R language support'
>>> ??
>>>
>>
>> It is already in place, albeit not from Cary:
>>
>>  http://www.minequest.com/
>>
>> See the link for "A Bridge to R for SAS Users".
>>
>> That product might put an interesting spin on:
>>
>>  > fortune(28)
>>
>> Jim Gustafsson: I would like to put my SAS-code into R. Could I do
>> that, if yes, how?
>> Frank Harrell: Just reverse the procedure you use when you put R code
>> into SAS. ;)
>>   -- Jim Gustafsson and Frank Harrell
>>      R-help (February 2004)
>>
>>
>> Their WPS product has been getting a fair amount of attention, at least
>> for those needing mostly "Base" and not "Stat" functionality at
>> substantially less cost than the SAS commercial license pricing.
>>
>
> Correction. WPS is actually a product of "Word Programming", which is at:
>
>  http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/products/wps
>
> though at the moment, I am having trouble getting to their web page. There
> is a Wikipedia page here:
>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Programming_System
>
> Minequest is providing SAS to WPS related consulting services.
>
> Marc
>
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