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Kjetil Halvorsen
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Sorry. That will be difficult. Could'nt it do to prove it is better?

Kjetil

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        
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      Spencer Graves
    

    

      
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Did you try to Google for R vs. your favorite alternative?  I just 
got 740 hits from Google for "R vs. SAS" and 82 from www.r-project.org 
-> search -> R site search.  This has been discussed on this list 
several times, and many benchmarks have been published.  If you don't 
find what you want fairly quickly, read the posting guide and ask a more 
specific question.  The benchmarks I've seen have rated R quite high.

	  Each commercial package may be able to claim that it is better for 
some particular purpose, e.g., SAS and the latest release of S-Plus with 
large data bases.  Minitab, SPSS, JMP and others may have an easier to 
use graphical user interface for naive users, although even that 
superiority is being challenged.

	  R has been changing and improving so fast that it is difficult for 
any of the commercial alternatives to keep up.  There are several 
reasons for this.  First,  R is easily extended.  Second, the R 
Foundatation for Statistical Computing has provided a supportive 
organizational framework that makes it easy for people to share.  Third, 
there are hundreds and perhaps thousands of competent professionals the 
world over who have been frustrated in the past by the steep price of 
commercial software for many things, and R provides a shockingly easy 
and open alternative that helps people share their latest developments 
with the entire world in a way that replaces that frustration with the 
pride of contributing to something incredibly useful.

	  Best Wishes,
	  spencer graves

        
Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Cuvelier Etienne
    

    

      
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At 16:52 3/05/2005 -0300, rene.raupp wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
The results of a Benchmark test of various number crunching packages  (R 1.9.0, S-PLUS 6.1,  Matlab 6.0, O-Matrix 5.6 Ml mode, 
O-Matrix 5.6 native, Octave 2.1.42, Scilab 2.7, Ox 3.30) can be found at :
http://www.sciviews.org/benchmark/index.html

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        
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On Wed, 04 May 2005 10:22:01 +0200

        
Cuvelier Etienne <ecu at info.fundp.ac.be> wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
i can NOT connect with the website .i do not why.anyone else come across this problem?

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Spencer Graves
    

    

      
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It came up for me.  However, that's just a speed comparison, which
said that R 1.9.0 was comparable with the best available, better than
most but not necessarily the best depending on the task.

	   I would think you might be more concerned with accuracy and ease of
use, and I suggest you Google and do an R site search, as I suggested.
This has been discussed repeately on this list, and a search should
expose many useful comments.

	  spencer graves

        
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      Francisco J. Zagmutt
    

    

      
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You can search on this forum for different discussions on this topic. Also, 
there are 2 somehow outdated publications comparing different software 
including SAS, SPSS and S-Plus, which might be of some use for you.  The 
references are:

McCullough, B. D. (1998), "Assessing the reliability of statistical
software: Part I", The American Statistician, 52,  358-366.

McCullough, B. D. (1999), "Assessing the reliability of statistical
software: Part II", The American Statistician, 53,149-159.

I hope this helps

Francisco