Inefficiency of SAS Programming
On Mar 3, 9:58?am, Ajay ohri <ohri2... at gmail.com> wrote:
for an " inefficient " language , it sure has dominated the predictive analytics world for 3 plus decades. I referred once to intellectual jealousy between newton and liebnitz. i am going ahead and creating the R package called "Anne". It basically is meant only for SAS users who want to learn R , without upsetting the schedule of the corporate users. Simply put , it is a wrapper on SAS language using the function command...ie procunivariate function in "Anne" package would call the summary function and so on... Regards, Ajay www.decisionstats.com
===================================== Bob Muenchen's book "R for SAS and SPSS users" provides a systematic transition plan (if I may use that term) for SAS and SPSS users intending to work on/migrate to R. Having been a newly transformed R user myself, I'm inclined to believe that creating yet another package that just houses some SAS procedures--sounding names for data manipulation/summarization would add to fair bit of confusion. my $.02.. -Girish