I would like to know if we can create a package in which r functions are renamed closer to sas language.doing so will help people familiar to SAS to straight away take to R for their work,thus decreasing the threshold for acceptance - and then get into deeper understanding later. since it is a package it would be optional only for people wanting to try out R from SAS.. Do we have such a package right now..it basically masks R functions to the equivalent function in another language just for user ease /beginners
for example creating function for means procmeans<-function(x,y) + { summary ( subset(x,select=c(x,y)) + ) creating function for importing csv procimport <-function(x,y) + { read.csv( textConnection(x),row.names=y,na.strings=" " + ) creating function fo describing data procunivariate<-function(x)+ { summary(x) + ) regards, ajay www.decisionstats.com On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Frank E Harrell Jr < f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote: > If anyone wants to see a prime example of how inefficient it is to program > in SAS, take a look at the SAS programs provided by the US Agency for > Healthcare Research and Quality for risk adjusting and reporting for > hospital outcomes at http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/software.htm . > The PSSASP3.SAS program is a prime example. Look at how you do a vector > product in the SAS macro language to evaluate predictions from a logistic > regression model. I estimate that using R would easily cut the programming > time of this set of programs by a factor of 4. > > Frank > -- > Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine > Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.