On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:12 PM, John Sorkin <jsor...@grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote: > It is easy to devolve into visceral response mode, lose objectivity and slip > into intolerance. R, S, S-Plus, SAS, PASW (nee SPSS), STATA, are all tools. > Each has strengths and weaknesses. No one is inherently better, or worse than > the other.
Sometimes it seems the name of the tool is more important. SPSS became PASW for a brief inkling of time until someone at IBM perhaps recognised the enormous value of just the name and then decided they better stick with it, but decided to prefix everything with 'IBM'. Corporate ego trip anyone? http://spss.com/software/statistics/ Barry ______________________________________________ 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.
