On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Aria Bamdad <a...@bsc.gwu.edu> wrote: > Thanks for this link. I was not aware of WPS. We will seriously take a > look at this product. > > Although R is an excellent alternative as David Boyes suggested, it is so > only from a statistical analysis point of view. When it comes to data > management and manipulation, it is not really a good alternative to SAS. > ...
From my limited experience, R is a very flexible statistical analysis system, but is more suited to investigating and modifying statistical analyses than to the actual analysis of realistically large quantities of data. That merges with the "data manipulation" comment above. --henry schaffer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
