R surpassed Matlab and SAS on recent Tiobe Programming index for popularity. I agree with this ranking[1], since R could largely replace Matlab and SAS for MB size data, and it is getting hot. The fast growing sectors, finance, biology, bioinformatics …
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Too Big to Be Accurate(1): Which is the Most Powerful Calculator in the World?
Calculate the factorial of 171 (171!)? Just TRY! It is equal to 171*170*169*….2*1.
1. Google calculator
As Google fanatics, I first try to search the answer via Google:
Whoops, nothing interested returned! Type “170!” and get the output:
Why kinda things happened in this calculator? 171! is just equal to 171*170!.
2. Excel
Switch to Excel spreadsheet. Function fact(*) […]
SAS vs R in data mining (1): challenges for SAS
The past three years witnessed the rise of R, an open source statistical software. Search R related books in Amazon, and tons of recent titles show up ranging from graphics to scientific computation. Thanks to those graduates sprang out of school that …
New SAS Blog: www.SAS-X.com
This is a followup to my previous post Attention all SAS Bloggers. Tal Galili from http://www.r-bloggers.com has launched a similar site for SAS bloggers: http://www.sas-x.com.
As I spent more time on the R-bloggers site, it grew…
Attention all SAS Bloggers: R Blogger has a question for you
Fellow blogger Tal Galili contacted me to share a project of his: http://www.r-bloggers.com.
R-Bloggers.com is a central hub (e.g: A blog aggregator) of content collected from bloggers who write about R (in English). The site will help R blogg…
Using R for Data Management, Statistical Analysis and Graphics soon to start shipping
Our newest book, Using R for Data Management, Statistical Analysis and Graphics, is anticipated to soon start shipping from Amazon, CRC Press, and other fine retailers. The book complements our existing SAS and R book, particularly for users less inte…
R AnalyticFlow
R AnalyticFlow seems to be a nice tool to have a good overview over the analysis. The same kind of mode is available in Orange and SAS Enterprise Guide. I have not tried it yet, though. Does anyone have any experiences with it?Update on 2010-07-31: the…
R in SAS
Another “proof” that R definitely is one of mainstream statistical packages is the news that SAS will provide an interface to R via SAS/IML Studio (today known as SAS Stat Studio).