Hi All: Recently, I got a query how R compared cost-wise (cost of purchase, maintenance, and training manuals) with other proprietary statistical software programs (or programming environments). The request, verbatim:
<--- begin quote ----> >> dear arin, >> >> can you please find out the price of the various >> prop. statistical >> packages that are in general use + their per user >> license fee + annual >> fees etc at various scales? >> >> this will help us to prepare a matrix as to why >> people should spend >> money on R or similar training ... < --- end quote ---> I searched the web and got some quotes. I believe someone/group in this list may already have compiled a nice comparison chart with more detailed research than I can pull up with my one hour surfing. I'd greatly appreciate if anyone can share price-wise comparison between R versus popular proprietary software (SAS, SPSS, STATA, etc). TIA, Arin Basu ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
