[R] SAS VS R - What type of analysis is better?

[Bert Gunter]

Please do your homework.

The place to start for questions like this is the CRAN Task Views
page, where you will find a High Performance Computing topic that
links here:

http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/HighPerformanceComputing.html

If nothing there suits, then re-post with details as to why not and
what you think you are looking for.

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
(650) 467-7374

"Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge
is certainly not wisdom."
H. Gilbert Welch




On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Frede Aakmann Tøgersen <frtog at vestas.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> SAS is famous for handling large data sets. For more than 10 years ago S+ introduced a module for large data sets. Never used it, more money for license for a poor research institute.
>
> Today I have a laptop with 8 Gb. If that's not enough then the head nodes on our cluster has 64 Gb and some nodes 196 Gb.
>
> But from time to time it could be an advantage to do some analysis using the laptop.
>
> So my question is: which kind of functionality for large data sets do the R community offers?
>
> Br.
>
> Frede
>
>
>
>
> Sendt fra Samsung mobil
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> -------- Oprindelig meddelelse --------
> Fra: Frank Harrell
> Dato:06/06/2014 14.43 (GMT+01:00)
> Til: RHELP
> Emne: Re: [R] SAS VS R - What type of analysis is better?
>
> I can't think of an example where R does not work better than SAS except
> for a few cases of mixed effects regression models and for processing
> enormous datasets when the R user does not want to learn about the
> latest R tools for large datasets.  I quit using SAS in 1991 (in favor
> of S-Plus and transitioned to R around 2000) and have never looked back.
>   Lately what has really made R powerful is its ability to interface
> with other languages and especially the way it works in a reproducible
> analysis/dynamic report document context.
>
> Frank
> --
> Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chairman      School of Medicine
>                     Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University
>
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