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Got me thinking about what is means for SAS, and found: R vs SAS, why is SAS preferred by private companies? http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/33780/r-
by euroclydon 12y ago
Got me thinking about what is means for SAS, and found:
R vs SAS, why is SAS preferred by private companies?
http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/33780/r-vs-sas-why-is-sas-preferred-by-private-companies http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/33780/r-vs-sas-why-...
- vishalzone2002 12y agoI think this is a big threat to them. I find R more powerful than SAS. With Tibco and microsoft behind the language now, it is going to eat a lot of market.
- IndianAstronaut 12y agoCode that was written for SAS in the 80s still runs today.
- michaelhoffman 12y agoCode that was written for S in the 80s still runs on R today.
- RockyMcNuts 12y agoIf it has any loops, almost as slowly and uselessly as it did then :)
- jfolson 12y agoNot really. All packages are bytecode compiled, so unless you doing something stupid, for loops are much faster than they used to be in R.
- RockyMcNuts 12y agogood to know...was doing something in 2013 that couldn't be vectorized (lots of portfolio simulation calcs where each element in dataframe depended on previous elements, ie portfolio value + market return - spending based on moving average of portfolio value) and it was pretty horrible, trying to use Rcpp and whatnot to speed it up!