Tag: R

R or SAS: Quick Links to the Recent Debates

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Original post, 7 Jan, 2009

New York Times, Data Analysts Captivated by R’s Power byAshlee Vance.

Key Point

The popularity of R at universities could threaten SAS Institute.

A Controversial Review by Anee Milley from SAS

We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get […]

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PROC MIXED vs. lmer()

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I am using R for a few years now. I like it a lot. Previously I used SAS (notably its modules SAS/BASE, SAS/STAT, SAS/IML, …), because that is the statistical package of choice at my department. I had a hard time when I switched to R, mainly because …

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