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Ugh, I hate SAS. So much of your time spent on SAS is spent on exactly that: the idiosyncracies of SAS (why is input labeled "cards", professor? Oh, because fol
by arkades 9y ago
Ugh, I hate SAS. So much of your time spent on SAS is spent on exactly that: the idiosyncracies of SAS (why is input labeled "cards", professor? Oh, because folks have been working on SAS in one way or another since data was still using punch cards...).
R does take more work, but at least it's with generalizable skills. I detest spending my time learning something that can only be used in its narrow niche.
- devereaux 9y agoAlternatively, narrow niches offer many other possibilities for selling skills :-)
- arkades 9y agoFair, but I think "statistician with a strong general programming bsckground" is actually less common than "statistician with a strong SAS background." Its narrow, but common in that niche.
- devereaux 9y agoIndeed! BTW I just submitted a link to show HN how I include SAS code inside Rstudio. It is a bit ugly but it does the job. If you still need to do some SAS it could be helpful to you.