On Sep 27, 6:33 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > > On 9/27/11 10:24 AM, Tal Einat wrote: > >> I don't work with SAS so I have no reason to invest any time developing > >> for it. > > >> Also, as far as I can tell, SAS is far from free or open-source, meaning > >> I definitely am not interested in developing for it. > > > I don't think he's suggesting that you drop what you are doing in Python > > and start working with SAS. He is suggesting that you look at the similar > > procedures that exist in the SAS standard library for inspiration. > > Yeah, inspiration on what *not* to do. > > I googled on "SAS PROC FREQ" and found this: > > http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/procstat/63104/HTML/defau... > > All the words are in English, but I have no idea what the function does, how > you would call it, and what it returns. Would it have been so hard to show > a couple of examples? > > Documentation like that really makes me appreciate the sterling work done on > Python's docs. > > This tutorial: > > http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi30/263-30.pdf > > is much clearer. > > -- > Steven
Yes - I definitely do not like the SAS docs - in fact, when I last had to "buy" the product, it was something like £5k for the "BASE" system, then if I wanted ODBC it was another £900, and the "proper" manuals were something stupid like another £1k (and only in hard copy) - this was a good 5/6 years ago though... (oh, and for a very basic course, it was £1.2k a day for staff to train) *sighs* [oh, and if I wanted a 'site' licence, we were talking 6 digits] Anyway, Robert Kern correctly interpreted me. I was not suggesting to the OP that he move to SAS (heaven forbid), I was indeed suggesting that he look into what similar systems have (that I have experience with and appreciate), and he acknowledges that is not present in Python, and ummm, take inspiration and quite possibly "rip 'em off". A decent tabulate/cross-tabulation and statistics related there-to library is something I'd be willing to assist with and put time into. Cheers, Jon. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list