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Packages. They can be built by a single prof/grad student. They can be used by anyone based on R's package-manager GUI. Research in most fields is going to m
by stillsut 12y ago
Packages.
They can be built by a single prof/grad student.
They can be used by anyone based on R's package-manager GUI.
Research in most fields is going to move more quickly than any software team can add functionality to monolithic programs like SAS. Therefore, most functionality becomes available only in R. Users - people who want to run specialized-domain-function-X on their dataset are best suited by learning R, then using their colleagues packages.
- rcthompson 12y agoI don't know much about SAS or SPSS, but do they really not have a usable package/module system for code reuse? Or is it just not as good as R's?
- claytonjy 12y agoI don't know about the package system for SAS or SPSS (though I am aware that papers get published with code for said platforms), but I think the bigger barrier is availability; R is free and open.
- _deh 12y agoSAS a bit, but as another comment notes, nothing like CRAN. SPSS not at all, at best you could publish some sort of script.
- _deh 12y agoAgree entirely. Academics led and industry followed.