neela v wrote:
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.
My personal proclivities incline me to use SAS (or Minitab) for analysing mixed effects models. I have never been able to get my head around the S/R syntax for such models, whereas the SAS/Minitab syntax seems perfectly clear to me. For ***ANYTHING*** else I would use R. (In my work I don't encounter the multi-multi-megabyte data sets for which SAS apparently has a pronounced advantage with respect to speed.) cheers, Rolf Turner rolf at math.unb.ca