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R for SAS & SPSS Users Document

3 messages · Muenchen, Robert A (Bob), Julien Barnier

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Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
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Greetings,

I am pleased to announce the availability of the document, "R for SAS
and SPSS Users", at 
http://oit.utk.edu/scc/RforSAS&SPSSusers.doc .  It presents an
introductory view of R for people who already know SAS and/or SPSS.
Included are 27 programs written in all three languages (i.e. 81 total)
so that people can see how R works compared to the other two, task by
task.

I would appreciate it if folks with far more R expertise than I have
could review it and provide advice on ways to improve programming
examples or wording. The wording was challenging since the jargon used
by the three packages differs so much. I'm sure there is much room for
improvement.

Cheers,
Bob

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Bob Muenchen (pronounced Min'-chen), Manager 
Statistical Consulting Center
U of TN Office of Information Technology
200 Stokely Management Center, Knoxville, TN 37996-0520
Voice: (865) 974-5230 
FAX: (865) 974-4810
Email: muenchen at utk.edu
Web: http://oit.utk.edu/scc, 
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1 day later
Julien Barnier
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Hi,
I've looked at the document and printed it. I think it will be very
useful to me, even if I will use it "the reverse way" : learn how to
use SAS from R...

As I am far from an R expert, I will not be able to give you good
advices on R code. But maybe you would have had more comments on your
tutorial if you had given the link to the PDF version instead of the
MSWord one :

http://oit.utk.edu/scc/RforSAS&SPSSusers.pdf

Thanks again for your document,
Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
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Julien Barnier wrote: "... I think it will be very useful to me, even if
I will use it "the reverse way" : learn how to use SAS from R..."

I hadn't thought of using the document in "reverse" to learn SAS or SPSS
if you already know R. I'll have to reread it from that perspective &
see if there are any changes I can make to help in that direction
without a total rewrite. If anyone has any suggestions along those
lines, please send them my way.

Thanks for the PDF tip. Several people suggested that. I thought cutting
& pasting examples would be important, which is not as easy from PDF.
OpenOffice can open the .doc version on Linux if you use that. I have
added a PDF version at the same link ending in PDF:
http://oit.utk.edu/scc/RforSAS&SPSSusers.pdf

Cheers,
Bob

=========================================================
Bob Muenchen (pronounced Min'-chen), Manager 
Statistical Consulting Center
U of TN Office of Information Technology
200 Stokely Management Center, Knoxville, TN 37996-0520
Voice: (865) 974-5230 
FAX: (865) 974-4810
Email: muenchen at utk.edu
Web: http://oit.utk.edu/scc, 
News: http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/statnews.html
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Subject: Re: [R] R for SAS & SPSS Users Document

Hi,
I've looked at the document and printed it. I think it will be very
useful to me, even if I will use it "the reverse way" : learn how to
use SAS from R...

As I am far from an R expert, I will not be able to give you good
advices on R code. But maybe you would have had more comments on your
tutorial if you had given the link to the PDF version instead of the
MSWord one :

http://oit.utk.edu/scc/RforSAS&SPSSusers.pdf

Thanks again for your document,