Honestly, my feeling is that proprietary systems preclude reproducibilty in principle. One can argue that, in practice, people rarely dig i to the guts of R or

Honestly, my feeling is that proprietary systems preclude reproducibilty in principle. One can argue that, in practice, people rarely dig i to the guts of R or Python to validate routines. However, in SAS, that just isn’t possible. Open Source isn’t pixie dust, but at least it doesn’t a priori preclude digging down to the bottom of the stack. More pragmatically, I wouldn’t want work that I do to only be validatable by people who can afford SAS. I’d rather not impose other socio-demographic biases into knowledge work if I can help it.