Re: [R] things that are difficult/impossible to do in SAS or SPSSbut simple in R

2008-01-18 Thread Tim Churches
hadley wickham wrote: On Jan 18, 2008 1:19 PM, Jeffrey J. Hallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank E Harrell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rob Robinson wrote: I wonder if those who complain about SAS as a programming environment have discovered SAS/IML which provides a programming environment

Re: [R] things that are difficult/impossible to do in SAS or SPSS but simple in R

2008-01-17 Thread Tim Churches
James Reilly wrote: Max Kuhn wrote: Factors have huge benefits over character data in SAS. For a series regulatory filings, I had miles of SAS code to compute KxK tables where all the cells must show up. For example, if one of the levels of one of the variables was never observed, the

Re: [R] sprucing up the R homepage

2007-09-25 Thread Tim Churches
Finny Kuruvilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been a R-user for quite some time. The graphic on the home page looks a bit in need of polish so I applied some antialiased transformations that Peter Dalgaard has previously posted to R-help for improving graphic quality. I had to change the