Message-ID: <20041120121155.GA20979@psych>
Date: 2004-11-20T12:11:55Z
From: Jonathan Baron
Subject: SAS or R software
In-Reply-To: <419F0D97.3040506@free.fr>
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
many of my colleagues use it, aside from inertia and [rational
- since they have no choice] ignorance of alternatives.)
2. It used to be true, and it may still be true, that SAS
compiles all code before running it, whereas R uses many
compiled routines but does not compile the code you write
yourself. Thus, SAS may be faster for huge data sets, like
census data.
Jon
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Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
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