Just to further Paolo's answer :
There might be a point to have a SAS-like language : there exists lots
of legacy SAS code, which might be beneficial to people/organizations
using it.
However, this legacy code very often benefits of the re-reading and
rationalization necessary to port it to another system (and, yes, R is a
very good solution, statistically much more advanced than SAS in most
domains, and the best replacement unless your data are multi-gigabytes
heavy...).
Furthermore, an important part of this legacy code is devoted to an
user-interaction system that aims to be cross-platform by emulating a
very early transaction-mode terminal (think MVS under morphine ...).
This part is probably not portable to anything else ; more often than
not, the humane solution is to scrape and replace it...
A third part might worth salvaging : the input-output system allows
reading a *lot* of file formats...
So the creation of a SAS-like language, which is a humongous task, does
not seem worthy to me ; however, some specialized subsystems would come
in handy...
Emmanuel Charpentier
Paolo Cavallini a écrit :
What's wrong with R? Isn't it powerful enough for your needs?
pc
At 01:07, martedì 07 marzo 2006, Constantine Theofilopoulos has probably
written:
I am a SAS programmer with 8 years experience. The price of SAS is insane
and I was wondering if there was (or plans to be) a SAS like language and
environment (editor, log and output) with OpenOffice? Other than 'R' I
cannot think of a free alternative. A SAS competitor is dearly needed.
Working with so many different clients over the years the 80/20 truly
applies with the way they use it.
Thanks,
Constantine Theofilopoulos
Toronto, Canada
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