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), 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@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
>
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