Hi all there
Can some one clarify me on this issue, features wise which is better R or SAS, leaving the commerical aspect associated with it. I suppose there are few people who have worked on both R and SAS and wish they would be able to help me in deciding on this.
THank you for the help
I estimate that SAS is about 11 years behind R in statistical analysis and graphics capabilities, and that gap is growing. Also, code in SAS is not peer-reviewed as is code in R. SAS has advantages in two areas: dealing with massive datasets (generally speaking, > 1GB) and getting more accurate P-values in mixed effect models.
See http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/pub/Main/RS/sintro.pdf for one comparison of SAS and S on technical features.
There are companies whose yearly license fees to SAS total millions of dollars. Then those companies hire armies of SAS programmers to program an archaic macro language using old statistical methods to produce ugly tables and the worst graphics in the statistical software world.
Frank Harrell
SAS User, 1969-1991
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