Sas isn't better than R, the two softwares just target different ideal use cases IMO. R is far more flexible, but interpreted and has some really annoying prop

Sas isn't better than R, the two softwares just target different ideal use cases IMO. R is far more flexible, but interpreted and has some really annoying properties that make production work/reliability really hard. SAS is a quirky model of computation that limits it in some/many areas, but makes standard operations on rectangular data and data munging/etl on such a breeze. It's compiled. Macros are both a blessing and a curse. I still think it's better at that use than RevoR, and some of the data munging in R is not great. Plus, I admit when I saw that RevoR has an rxdatastep or whatever, I admit I was a bit "lolwut?