XLSolutions Corporation (www.xlsolutions-corp.com) is proud to announce our May-2005 2-day
"S-PLUS / R: Complementing and Extending Statistical Computing for SAS Users" www.xlsolutions-corp.com/Rsas.htm **** Boston ----------------------------------> May 26-27 **** Raleigh ----------------------------------> TBD Reserve your seat now at the early bird rates! Payment due AFTER the class. Course Description: This course is designed for users who want to learn how to complement and extend statistical computing of SAS with the S or R system. The course will give SAS users a strong foundation for becoming a versatile programmer. Participants are encouraged to bring data for interactive sessions With the following outline: - An Overview of resources: installation and demonstration, the R project/core; CRAN; the distribution for UNIX and windows systems; the package concept; literature: Venables and Ripley, Chambers and Hastie, other publications. - A Comparison of R and S-PLUS - Quick review of the SAS environment: the OS interface, the data step, macros, procs, reports. Issues of data archiving with SSD format; interfaces to DBMS - Data manipulations in S and R (data frame and matrix operations) and SAS (the data step) -- issues of importing, formatting, transformation, cataloging, exporting - Functions vs macros in SAS for programming repetitive processes. - The iteration models of SAS vs whole-object modeling - Statistical modeling support in R/S vs SAS PROCS. - Integrated documentation and example processing in R/S. - Post-processing of function output in R/S vs OUTPUT datasets in SAS. - Specific comparisons: linear modeling, glms, gees, lmes - Report Writing in R and Splus - Extending the R/S systems for new data structures and new algorithms Email us for group discounts. Email Sue Turner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 206-686-1578 Visit us: www.xlsolutions-corp.com/training.htm Please let us know if you and your colleagues are interested in this classto take advantage of group discount. Register now to secure your seat! Interested in R/Splus Advanced course? email us. Cheers, Elvis Miller, PhD Manager Training. XLSolutions Corporation 206 686 1578 www.xlsolutions-corp.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
