[R] Comparison of SAS R/Splus

2003-09-04 Thread Paul, David A
I am one of only 5 or 6 people in my organization making the effort to include R/Splus as an analysis tool in everyday work - the rest of my colleagues use SAS exclusively. Today, one of them made the assertion that he believes the numerical algorithms in SAS are superior to those in Splus and R

Re: [R] Comparison of SAS R/Splus

2003-09-04 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 08:34, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 14:50:25 -0400 Paul, David A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am one of only 5 or 6 people in my organization making the effort to include R/Splus as an analysis tool in everyday work - the rest of my colleagues use

Re: [R] Comparison of SAS R/Splus

2003-09-04 Thread Mike Prager
Paul, David A wrote: I am one of only 5 or 6 people in my organization making the effort to include R/Splus as an analysis tool in everyday work - the rest of my colleagues use SAS exclusively. Today, one of them made the assertion that he believes the numerical algorithms in SAS are superior to

Re: [R] Comparison of SAS R/Splus

2003-09-04 Thread Douglas Bates
Paul, David A [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am one of only 5 or 6 people in my organization making the effort to include R/Splus as an analysis tool in everyday work - the rest of my colleagues use SAS exclusively. Today, one of them made the assertion that he believes the numerical

Re: [R] Comparison of SAS R/Splus

2003-09-04 Thread Douglas Bates
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: McCullough, B. D. (1998), Assessing the reliability of statistical software: Part I, The American Statistician, 52, 149-159. McCullough, B. D. (1999), Assessing the reliability of statistical software: Part II, The American Statistician, 53,

Re: [R] Comparison of SAS R/Splus

2003-09-04 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Paul, David A wrote: I am one of only 5 or 6 people in my organization making the effort to include R/Splus as an analysis tool in everyday work - the rest of my colleagues use SAS exclusively. Today, one of them made the assertion that he believes the numerical

SUMMARY: [R] Comparison of SAS R/Splus

2003-09-04 Thread Paul, David A
My thanks to Drs. Armstrong, Bates, Harrell, Liaw, Lumley, Prager, Schwartz, and Mr. Wang for their replies. I have pasted my original message and their replies below. After viewing http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/strd/ as suggested by Dr. Schwartz, it occurred to me that it might be educational