On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote: > Ajay ohri wrote: >> >> Sometimes for the sake of simplicity, SAS coding is created like that. One >> can use the concatenate function and drag and drop in an simple excel sheet >> for creating elaborate SAS code like the one mentioned and without any time >> at all. > > A system that requires Excel for its success is not a complete system.
To be fair R depends on perl (although this dependence seems to be decreasing lately and possibly will be eliminated), latex and a bunch of unix tools. Developing GUIs depends on tcl/tk or other external system and developing fast code can require that some of it be written in C. ______________________________________________ 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.