Inefficiency of SAS Programming

Ajay ohri wrote:

I would like to know if we can create a package in which r functions
are renamed closer to sas language.doing so will help people familiar
to SAS to straight away take to R for their work,thus decreasing the
threshold for acceptance - and then get into deeper understanding later.

since it is a package it would be optional only for people wanting to
try out R from SAS.. Do we have such a package right now..it basically
masks R functions to the equivalent function in another language just
for user ease /beginners

for example

creating function for means
 procmeans<-function(x,y)
+ {
summary (
subset(x,select=c(x,y))
+
)

creating function for importing csv

procimport <-function(x,y)
+ {
read.csv(
textConnection(x),row.names=y,na.strings="  "
+
)


creating function fo describing data

procunivariate<-function(x)
+ {
summary(x)
+
)

regards,

ajay

Ajay,

This will generate major confusion among users of all types and be hard
to maintain.  A better approach is to get Bob Muenchen's excellent book
and keep it nearby.

Frank