Re: [R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Statistica, S-PLUS updated
On 3/22/2011 5:15 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: I don't doubt that R may be the most popular in terms of discussion group traffic, but you should be aware that the traffic for SAS comprises two separate lists that used to be mirrored, but are no longer linked Usenet -- news://comp.soft-sys.sas (what you counted) listserve -- SAS-L http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/sas-l.html R programming challenge: create a script that parses those html pages to compute the total number of messages per week! (Maybe I'll use this in class) Hadley That would be nice! I'd love to have all the sources, which includes various company forums. Sounds like students could be kept busy for quite a few projects. If any pull it off, please send it my way! Cheers, Bob -- = Bob Muenchen (pronounced Min'-chen), Manager Research Computing Support University of Tennessee Voice: (865) 974-5230 Email: muenchen@gmail.com Web: http://r4stats.com __ 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.
[R] New links between R and SPSS
Hi All, This week SPSS Inc. announced version 18, which has some very interesting enhancements regarding R. It will now ship with R on the DVD, along with the PASW Statistics-R Integration Package. Previously this required a download of R, and of the Integration Package. This may be the first time a vendor shipped R itself along with what may be viewed as a competitor to R. The second thing they announced is quite intriguing. PASW Statistics Developer is like PASW (SPSS) Statistics Base, along with R and Python, but with the statistics procedures stripped out. This will allow people to use the PASW Statistics graphical user interface to create menus and dialog boxes for R and Python programs. The extensions people write will be shared on http://www.spss.com/devcentral/. Such extensions could be used by the non-Developer version of PASW Statistics too. I think this is a very good thing for both R and SPSS Inc. It adds to R’s universality and expands PASW Statistics capabilities at the same time. Cheers, Bob Muenchen http://RforSASandSPSSusers.com __ 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.
