Henry E Schaffer píše v Čt 23. 09. 2010 v 19:31 -0400: 
> David writes:
> > > Does anyone have any experience with WPS on zLinux as an alternative to
> > > SAS?
> >
> > Depends on what you want to do. If all you use SAS for is report generation 
> > and various small amounts of data munging, then it's probably maybe OK. If 
> > you use any of the analytics functions of SAS, it's not even close.
> >
> > WPS is a decent report writer. It's not SAS.
> 
>   The best known open source stat package is R.
> http://www.r-project.org/
> 
> "R is a free software environment for statistical computing and
> graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, ..."
> 
>   I'm not sure about it running on zLinux - but it very well may,
> although a web search doesn't show any descriptions of doing it.

R is prebuilt in the upcoming Fedora 14 for s390x, an announcement about
Fedora availability will follow in the next days I expect


Dan

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