Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-12-19 Thread Ted Harding
On 19-Dec-04 Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Henric Nilsson wrote: How to fight this? I don't know. Right now I'm thinking, If you can beat 'em, join 'em and that the way of proving that `some other' software works is through having similar documents and tools as the commercial vendors.

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-12-19 Thread Ted Harding
On 19-Dec-04 Tim Churches wrote: Shawn Way wrote: I've seen multiple comments about MS Excel's precision and accuracy. Can you please point me in the right direction in locating information about these? As always, Google is your friend, but see for example

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-12-19 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
(Ted Harding) wrote: On 19-Dec-04 Tim Churches wrote: Shawn Way wrote: I've seen multiple comments about MS Excel's precision and accuracy. Can you please point me in the right direction in locating information about these? As always, Google is your friend, but see for example

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-12-18 Thread Henric Nilsson
Marc Schwartz said the following on 2004-12-18 01:19: As you are likely aware, other statistically relevant issues are contained in various ICH guidance documents regarding GCP considerations and principles for clinical trials: http://www.ich.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@_TEMPLATE=272 ICH E9 states that

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-12-18 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Marc Schwartz wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 17:11 -0500, Alexander C Cambon wrote: I apologize for adding this so late to the SAS or R software thread. This is a question, not a reply, but it seems to me to fit in well with the subject of this thread. I would like to know anyone's experiences

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-12-18 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Henric Nilsson wrote: Marc Schwartz said the following on 2004-12-18 01:19: As you are likely aware, other statistically relevant issues are contained in various ICH guidance documents regarding GCP considerations and principles for clinical trials: http://www.ich.org/[EMAIL

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-12-18 Thread Henric Nilsson
Frank E Harrell Jr said the following on 2004-12-18 15:03: That is not clear. Perhaps. And I think this is the issue. From the clients' perspective, not a single FDA document states that you can use other software than SAS. They haven't really thought about the fact that there isn't any FDA

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-12-18 Thread Jonathan Baron
There were two earlier threads on this topic: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/17554.html http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/10706.html Jon -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron R search

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-12-18 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Henric Nilsson wrote: Frank E Harrell Jr said the following on 2004-12-18 15:03: That is not clear. Perhaps. And I think this is the issue. From the clients' perspective, not a single FDA document states that you can use other software than SAS. They haven't really thought about the fact that

RE: [R] SAS or R software

2004-12-18 Thread Shawn Way
] On Behalf Of Frank E Harrell Jr Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 7:24 PM To: Henric Nilsson Cc: R-Help; Douglas Bates; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alexander C Cambon; Jim Garrett Subject: Re: [R] SAS or R software Henric Nilsson wrote: Frank E Harrell Jr said the following on 2004-12-18 15:03

RE: [R] SAS or R software

2004-12-18 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 20:54 -0600, Shawn Way wrote: I've seen multiple comments about MS Excel's precision and accuracy. Can you please point me in the right direction in locating information about these? Thank you very much, There was an exchange on this last year and I posted some links

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-12-17 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Alexander C Cambon wrote: I apologize for adding this so late to the SAS or R software thread. This is a question, not a reply, but it seems to me to fit in well with the subject of this thread. I would like to know anyone's experiences in the following two areas below. I should add I have

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-12-17 Thread Douglas Bates
Alexander C Cambon wrote: I apologize for adding this so late to the SAS or R software thread. This is a question, not a reply, but it seems to me to fit in well with the subject of this thread. I would like to know anyone's experiences in the following two areas below. I should add I have

RE: [R] SAS or R software

2004-12-17 Thread Austin, Matt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marc Schwartz Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 16:19 PM To: Alexander C Cambon Cc: R-Help; Douglas Bates Subject: Re: [R] SAS or R software On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 17:11 -0500, Alexander C Cambon wrote

RE: [R] SAS or R software

2004-12-16 Thread Warnes, Gregory R
- Output delivery system (ODS): *Every* piece of SAS output is an output object that can be captured as a dataset, rendered in RTF, LaTeX, HTML, PDF, etc. with a relatively simple mechanism (including graphs) ods pdf file='mystuff.pdf''; any sas stuff ods pdf close; R

RE: [R] SAS or R software

2004-11-24 Thread bogdan romocea
neela v writes: Hi all there Can some one clarify me on this issue, features wise which is better R or SAS, leaving the commerical aspect associated with it. I suppose there are few people who have worked on both R and SAS and wish they would be able to help me in deciding on this. THank

[R] SAS or R software

2004-11-23 Thread Jose A. Hernandez
Hi Neela, Just my ¢2 regarding the R vs. SAS issue. I started to use SAS since my undergraduate studies in 1993, and I am now a migrating to R user, and I hope not to ever go back to SAS. My comments are: - SAS is huge it takes over 1GB of space of my PC while R takes just over 100 MB, this

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-11-21 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, BXC (Bendix Carstensen) schrieb: Two major advantages of SAS that seems to have been overlooked in the previous replies are: 1) The data-set language is SAS for data manipulation is more human-readable than R-code in general. R is not a definite write-only laguage as APL, but in

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-11-21 Thread Michael Friendly
I can't resist dipping my oar in here: For me, some significant advantages of SAS are - Ability to input data in almost *any* conceivable form using the combination of features available through input/infile statements, SAS informats and formats, data step programming, etc. Dataset manipulation

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-11-21 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Michael Friendly wrote: I can't resist dipping my oar in here: For me, some significant advantages of SAS are - Ability to input data in almost *any* conceivable form using the combination of features available through input/infile statements, SAS informats and formats, data step programming,

[R] SAS or R software

2004-11-20 Thread neela v
Hi all there Can some one clarify me on this issue, features wise which is better R or SAS, leaving the commerical aspect associated with it. I suppose there are few people who have worked on both R and SAS and wish they would be able to help me in deciding on this. THank you for the help

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-11-20 Thread Romain François
Hello, I think you'll get some bias if you do a survey on what software is better SAS or R in a R mailing list. Personnaly, what I like in R is : - the fact to you have to know what you are doing to do it, - the graphic potential is outstanding (only limited by the imagination of the user

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-11-20 Thread Kevin Wang
Hi, On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, neela v wrote: Hi all there Can some one clarify me on this issue, features wise which is better R or SAS, leaving the commerical aspect associated with it. I suppose there are few people who have worked on both R and SAS and wish they would be able to help me

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-11-20 Thread Jonathan Baron
There was at least one previous discussion of SAS vs. R on this list. I searched my archives (below). The thread begins at http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp01/archive/5947.html but then changes title. Two arguments for SAS: 1. You may be working with other people who use it. (That is why

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-11-20 Thread Fernando Henrique Ferraz P. da Rosa
neela v writes: Hi all there Can some one clarify me on this issue, features wise which is better R or SAS, leaving the commerical aspect associated with it. I suppose there are few people who have worked on both R and SAS and wish they would be able to help me in deciding on this.

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-11-20 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
neela v wrote: Hi all there Can some one clarify me on this issue, features wise which is better R or SAS, leaving the commerical aspect associated with it. I suppose there are few people who have worked on both R and SAS and wish they would be able to help me in deciding on this. THank you

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-11-20 Thread Rolf Turner
neela v wrote: Can some one clarify me on this issue, features wise which is better R or SAS, leaving the commerical aspect associated with it. I suppose there are few people who have worked on both R and SAS and wish they would be able to help me in deciding on this. My personal

RE: [R] SAS or R software

2004-11-20 Thread BXC (Bendix Carstensen)
: +45 30 75 87 38 fax: +45 44 43 07 06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.biostat.ku.dk/~bxc -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of neela v Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] SAS or R

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-11-20 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
BXC (Bendix Carstensen) wrote: Two major advantages of SAS that seems to have been overlooked in the previous replies are: 1) The data-set language is SAS for data manipulation is more human-readable than R-code in general. R is not a definite write-only laguage as APL, but in particular