[R] SAS, SPSS Product Comparison Table

Thomas Adams Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov
Fri Feb 16 14:34:54 CET 2007


Charilaos,

I noticed within your table, under GIS/Mapping for 'R' you only listed 
'maps'. You should probably include GRASS GIS, which can be interfaced 
to R using the spgrass6 package.

Regards,
Tom


Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote:
>   
>>  "Surely R can't do for free what [fill in a SAS or SPSS
>> product here] does?" To try to address those, I've compiled a table  
>> that
>> is organized by the product categories SAS and SPSS offer. Keep in  
>> mind
>> that I still know far more about SAS and SPSS than I do about R, so I
>> could really use some help with this. The table is below in tabbed  
>> form.
>> I would appreciate it if the many R gurus out there would look it over
>> and send suggestions. I'll add it as an appendix when it's done (well,
>> as done as a moving target like this ever is!)
>>
>>     
> Great idea, this should come in handy! Here is a more readable  
> version of Bob's table (don't know if I can post attachments like  
> that to the list, so I figured I'll put it up like this):
>
> http://skiadas.dcostanet.net/uploads/StatsComparisonTable.pdf
>
>   
>> Thanks,
>> Bob
>>     
>
> Haris
>
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