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I've never used it, so I can't speak on it's complexity, but are there any comparable open source alternatives? Like an OpenOffice style project?
by spicybright 5y ago
I've never used it, so I can't speak on it's complexity, but are there any comparable open source alternatives? Like an OpenOffice style project?
- madrox 5y agoIf there is, I don't know of it. A little googling suggests Gnu Dap, but I haven't tried it. SAS is a query language, so it has a lot in common with SQL, though it's much more powerful.
- CRConrad 5y ago> SAS is a query language, so it has a lot in common with SQL, though it's much more powerful. Well, as I recall it, it's more of a database management / software development package with an integrated data manipulation language (the original one, among the at least three "languages" it contains) to make new datasets based on existing ones. Yes, as an imperative Turing-complete language that's much more powerful than SQL, but it carries with it a huge overhead in the form of the whole rest of the system. Not to mention the lock-in.
- icelancer 5y agoR studio is the typical alternative, along with GNU Octave. They're not super comparable; SAS is an Oracle-type product as others have pointed out in this thread