Hi All, My paper "R for SAS and SPSS Users" received a bit more of a reaction than I expected. I posted the link (http://oit.utk.edu/scc/RforSAS&SPSSusers.pdf) about 12 days ago on R-help and the equivalent SAS and SPSS lists. Since then people have downloaded it 5,503 times and I've gotten lots of questions along the lines of, "Surely R can't do for free what [fill in a SAS or SPSS product here] does?" To try to address those, I've compiled a table that is organized by the product categories SAS and SPSS offer. Keep in mind that I still know far more about SAS and SPSS than I do about R, so I could really use some help with this. The table is below in tabbed form. I would appreciate it if the many R gurus out there would look it over and send suggestions. I'll add it as an appendix when it's done (well, as done as a moving target like this ever is!) Thanks, Bob Topic SAS Product SPSS Product R Package Advanced Models SAS/STAT SPSS Advanced Models(tm) R Automated Data Preparation None SPSS Data Preparation(tm) None? Automated Forecasting SAS Forecast Studio DecisionTime/WhatIf(tm) None? Basics SAS SPSS Base(tm) R Conjoint Analysis SAS/STAT: Transreg SPSS Conjoint(tm) Acepack? Correspondence Analysis SAS/STAT: Corresp SPSS Categories(tm) Homals, MASS, FactoMineR, ade4, PTAk, ccoresp, vegan, made4,PsychoR Custom Tables Base: Proc Tabulate SPSS Custom Tables(tm) reshape Data Mining Enterprise Miner Clementine Rattle Exact Tests SAS/STAT: various SPSS Exact Tests(tm) exactLoglinTest Genetics SAS/Genetics, SAS/Microarray Solution, JMP Genomics None Bioconductor GIS/Mapping SAS/GIS SPSS Maps(tm) maps Graphical User Interface Enterprise Guide SPSS JGR, R Commander, pmg, Sciviews Graphics SAS/GRAPH(r) SPSS Base(tm) R, ggplot Guided Analysis SAS/LAB None None Matrix/Linear Algebra SAS/IML(tm), SAS/IML Workshop SPSS Matrix(tm) R Missing Values Imputation SAS/STAT: Proc MI SPSS Missing Values Analysis(tm) aregImpute (Hmisc), fit.mult.impute (Design) Mixed Models Proc Mixed SPSS Advanced Models lmer Operations Research SAS/OR None TSP Power Analysis SAS/STAT: Power,GLM Power SamplePower(tm) asypow, powerpkg, pwr Regression Models SAS/BASE SPSS Regression Models(tm) R Sampling, Nonrandom SAS/STAT: surveymeans, etc. SPSS Complex Samples(tm) survey Structural Equations SAS/STAT: Calis Amos(tm) sem Text Analysis Text Miner SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys(tm) tm Time Series SAS/ETS(tm) SPSS Trends(tm) ArDec, brainwaver, dyn, fame, Systemfit, tsDyn, tseries, tseriesChaos, tsfa, urca, uroot Trees, Decision or Regression Enterprise Miner SPSS Classification Trees(tm), AnswerTree(tm) tree, rpart Visualization SAS/INSIGHT None rggobi, GGobi ========================================================= 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
SAS, SPSS Product Comparison Table
4 messages · Muenchen, Robert A (Bob), Charilaos Skiadas, Thomas Adams
On Feb 10, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote:
"Surely R can't do for free what [fill in a SAS or SPSS product here] does?" To try to address those, I've compiled a table that is organized by the product categories SAS and SPSS offer. Keep in mind that I still know far more about SAS and SPSS than I do about R, so I could really use some help with this. The table is below in tabbed form. I would appreciate it if the many R gurus out there would look it over and send suggestions. I'll add it as an appendix when it's done (well, as done as a moving target like this ever is!)
Great idea, this should come in handy! Here is a more readable version of Bob's table (don't know if I can post attachments like that to the list, so I figured I'll put it up like this): http://skiadas.dcostanet.net/uploads/StatsComparisonTable.pdf
Thanks, Bob
Haris
2 days later
Hi All, Thanks to lots of good ideas from R-helpers, I've polished up the table and posted it here: http://oit.utk.edu/scc/RforSAS&SPSSproducts.pdf To be consistent with its product orientation, I dropped mixed models (it's not a separate product in either SAS or SPSS). I also added SAS/QC and links to similar pages such as CRAN's Task Views. People (especially Patrick Burns) sent the following list of topics that are not SAS or SPSS products, but which might make good additions to Task Views: resampling techniques: boot, coin (and many others) report generation: R (the Sweave function) neural networks: nnet, AMORE, neural, grnnR finance: Rmetrics, portfolio (and several more) designed experiments: BHH2, blockrand, conf.design, spc Bayesian: BRugs, R2WinBUGS, bayesm (and many more) circular statistics: CircStats, circular robustness: R and many packages medical imaging: DICOM, AnalyzeFMRI, fmri functional data analysis: fda, MFDA Robust spatial statistics: spatial, spatstat, pastecs, fields, geoR (and more) Markov chain Monte Carlo: MCMCpack, mcmc meta-analysis: meta graphical models: mimR, ggm Mixed Models: lmer, nlme, lme4 mixture models: mixreg, mixtools pharmacokinetics: PK, PKfit, PKtools musicology: tuneR sudoku: sudoku Frank Harrell made an excellent suggestion that this be a page at the R-wiki. It's unlikely that any one person would know all these areas so it might work out if everyone could edit the sections they know. If anyone wants to put it up there, let me know & I'll be happy to send it to you in any form you like. I expect once a table format was established editing it would be easy. I acknowledged everyone who wrote at the bottom of the table. If I forgot anyone, it was an oversight. Drop me a line & I'll put you on there. Thanks again to everyone for all the help! 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
2 days later
Charilaos, I noticed within your table, under GIS/Mapping for 'R' you only listed 'maps'. You should probably include GRASS GIS, which can be interfaced to R using the spgrass6 package. Regards, Tom
Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
On Feb 10, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote:
"Surely R can't do for free what [fill in a SAS or SPSS
product here] does?" To try to address those, I've compiled a table
that
is organized by the product categories SAS and SPSS offer. Keep in
mind
that I still know far more about SAS and SPSS than I do about R, so I
could really use some help with this. The table is below in tabbed
form.
I would appreciate it if the many R gurus out there would look it over
and send suggestions. I'll add it as an appendix when it's done (well,
as done as a moving target like this ever is!)
Great idea, this should come in handy! Here is a more readable version of Bob's table (don't know if I can post attachments like that to the list, so I figured I'll put it up like this): http://skiadas.dcostanet.net/uploads/StatsComparisonTable.pdf
Thanks,
Bob
Haris
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