Programming Background

Chennade Brown 9/8/2021

R vs. SAS

I took ST 555 prior to this course so I have experience using SAS. R seems more user friendly than SAS. For example, I have been able to understand how to utilize functions in R by using the help function that provides examples of code. I don’t recall there being a built in help function in SAS. Although SAS has SAS documentation that users can search on the web. SAS also seems more sensitive than R. I don’t get as many errors or warning messages when using R as I did when I was using SAS. I have also found that information on the web is readily available to help R users resolve errors. When using SAS it was not as easy to resolve errors. So I really like the help function in R and the availability of help that is available on the web for R users.There aren’t a lot of things I miss about SAS; however, I was impressed with how quickly SAS could process large amounts of data. Also SAS syntax was not too difficult to learn. I have been able to do the homework assignments thus far so I don’t feel that R is a difficult language to learn; however, R language is different from SAS syntax.

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