Andy, I totally agree with you. Money should be spent on the people working hard instead of on the fancy software. But in real life, it is the opposite. ^_^.
On 4/9/07, Liaw, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've probably been away from SAS for too long... we've recently tried to > get SAS on our 64-bit Linux boxes (because SAS on PC is not sufficient > for some of my colleagues who need it). I was shocked by the quote for > our 28-core Scyld cluster--- the annual fee was a few times the total > cost of our hardware. We ended up buying a new quad 3GHz Opterons box > with 32GB ram just so that the fee for SAS on such a box would be more > tolerable. It just boggles my mind that the right to use SAS for a year > is about the price of a nice four-bedroom house (near SAS Institute!). > I don't understand people who rather pay that kind of price for the > software, instead of spending the money on state-of-the-art hardware and > save more than a bundle. > > Just my $0.02... > Andy > > From: Jorge Cornejo-Donoso > > > > I have a Dell with 2 Intel XEON 3.0 procesors and 2GB of ram.... > > The problem is the DB size. > > > > -----Mensaje original----- > > De: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Enviado el: Lunes, 09 de Abril de 2007 11:28 > > Para: Jorge Cornejo-Donoso > > CC: [email protected] > > Asunto: Re: [R] Reasons to Use R > > > > Have you tried 64 bit machines with larger memory or do you > > mean that you can't use R on your current machines? > > > > Also have you tried S-Plus? Will that work for you? The > > transition from that to R would be less than from SAS to R. > > > > On 4/9/07, Jorge Cornejo-Donoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > tha s9ze of db is an issue with R. We are still using SAS because R > > > can't handle own db, and of couse we don't want to sacrify > > resolution, > > > because the data collection is expensive (at least in fisheries and > > > oceagraphy), so.. I think that R need to improve the use of big DBs. > > > Now I only can use R for graph preparation and some data > > analisis, but > > > we can't do the main work on R, abd that is really sad. > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [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 > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments,...{{dropped}} > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- WenSui Liu A lousy statistician who happens to know a little programming (http://spaces.msn.com/statcompute/blog) ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
