R "Threatens" SAS According to The NYT

FYI..not a R -Help Topic, buy I dont know which list to post discussions like this.
Regards,
Ajay

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From: ajay ohri <ajayohri at yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: R "Threatens" SAS, According to The New York Times
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For people who have also wanted to try R , there is new version of R GUI , called Rattle downloadable from www.togaware.com

Also check out Interview of Roger Hadaad , Founder of KXEN on his views on analytics at www.decisionstats.com as well as how SPSS is responding to R at http://www.decisionstats.com/2008/11/review-r-for-sas-and-spss-users/

Ajay



--- On Wed, 1/7/09, Virtual SUG <sfbay0001 at AOL.COM> wrote:

  From: Virtual SUG <sfbay0001 at AOL.COM>
  Subject: R "Threatens" SAS, According to The New York Times
  To: SAS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
  Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 10:11 AM
 Hello everyone...

  Thought you might be interested in reading this article,
 which appears
 in the 1/6/9 online edition of The New York Times:

  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html

 The headline is "Data Analysts Captivated by R's
 Power," and towards
 the end of the story is the following paragraph:

 "While it is difficult to calculate exactly how many
  people use R,
  those most familiar with the software estimate that close
 to 250,000
  people work with it regularly. The popularity of R at
 universities
 could threaten SAS Institute, the privately held business
 software
 company that specializes in data analysis software. SAS,
 with more
 than $2 billion in annual revenue, has been the preferred
  tool of
 scholars and corporate managers. "

 Andrew Karp
  Sierra Information Services
  www.SierraInfomation.com