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The migration between languages is also industry specific. They are still teaching SAS to finance and healthcare analysts, for instance, and R and Python are st
by WhompingWindows 8y ago
The migration between languages is also industry specific. They are still teaching SAS to finance and healthcare analysts, for instance, and R and Python are still rising in healthcare specifically. Keep in mind all the legacy code and all the coders who just know SAS and don't need to change. It'll take longer for the transition than you think.
- bigger_cheese 8y agoI have tried to move from SAS to R a few times at this point it's largely inertia there is so much in my org already written in SAS makes it very difficult to convince people to change. I do like the SAS dev tools (especially Enterprise Guide). I'd really love if R had some sort of GUI front end for non technical people. Eg. I know the finance analysts in our org wouldn't have a clue how to configure their own ODBC sources -which you need to do with R Studio until it's as easy for them as SAS convincing them to switch won't get any traction.