http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2009/01/08/327/sas-and-the-r-programming-language Stuff I think, see and do Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:07:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2009/01/08/327/sas-and-the-r-programming-language/comment-page-1#comment-50643 Steve Polilli Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:18:46 +0000 http://johnleach.co.uk/words/?p=327#comment-50643 As a SAS marketing guy, I have my own biases, but I don't necessarily see this as a competition with R, no matter how many people use it. Both tools are applied to the same field but it's not a competition for two reasons: the analytics market is growing and there's room for several players, plus SAS and R have appeal to very different user sets. It's worth a peek at a followup post by Anne Milley who was quotes in the Times. See http://blogs.sas.com/sascom/ As a SAS marketing guy, I have my own biases, but I don’t necessarily see this as a competition with R, no matter how many people use it. Both tools are applied to the same field but it’s not a competition for two reasons: the analytics market is growing and there’s room for several players, plus SAS and R have appeal to very different user sets. It’s worth a peek at a followup post by Anne Milley who was quotes in the Times. See http://blogs.sas.com/sascom/

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