R has quickly become an essential tool in many research and applied science areas, including insurance and finance. Even the NYT noticed back in 2009: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?_r=0
Fortunately, z/OS users can jump right in and use R. Its pretty easy to run R from z/OS using z/OS datasets via a Co:Z Hybrid batch job - //RUNCOZK EXEC PROC=COZPROC, // ARGS='[email protected]' //LIFEEXP DD DISP=SHR,DSN=KIRK.LIFEEXP.DATA //STDIN DD * # Run the R statistical system with an inline program # This example is a 2-dimensional multiple regression # The dataset is read from a DD using "fromdsn" in a R pipe file. # The source of the data is: # www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/dunn/Datasets/applications/health/lifeexp.html R --no-save <<EOB mypipe = pipe("fromdsn DD:LIFEEXP", open="r") life = read.table(mypipe, header=TRUE) close(mypipe) multilinearFit = lm(LifeExp~PeoplePerTV+PeoplePerDoctor,data=life) summary(multilinearFit) EOB // A zBX blade is ideal for this kind of hybrid processing. To your other point, SAS is much less expensive if you run in on a distributed platform. In addition, WPS is modestly priced and can run most SAS programs. Here's a white paper with examples of running SAS programs via z/OS hybrid batch jobs, with z/OS dataset input and JES output reports. http://dovetail.com/products/casestudysas.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:43 AM, John McKown <[email protected]>wrote: > I wonder if a z/OS port of the following language would be of > interest. It might be an interesting way to get some performance > information for those of us who cannot afford SAS. > > > http://how-to.linuxcareer.com/introduction-to-gnu-r-on-linux-operating-system > > But then again, probably not, because it does not have the ability to > read SMF data built in to it. And it doesn't run on z/OS. It does run > on both Linux and Windows. But, unlike SAS on Linux/Windows, it cannot > direct read z/OS data via ftp, as best as I can see. > > But in the off chance somebody is interested: > > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ > http://www.r-project.org/ home web page > > > > -- > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
