Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0411202137230.2827@yin>
Date: 2004-11-20T10:39:45Z
From: Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
Subject: SAS or R software
In-Reply-To: <20041120081804.90157.qmail@web8403.mail.in.yahoo.com>
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 in deciding on this.
R is THE one to use when it comes to graphics. So far, I haven't seen any
other software that can produce better graphs (and I've used SAS, Minitab,
Excel, Genstat...etc). It's programming feature, IMHO, is also neater
than SAS's procedure-oriented programming.
Cheers,
Kevin
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