On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 08:40, Eigenvector wrote: > Anyone know of any GPL (GNU) SAS products esp. freeware? I am a > *starving* student and even purchasing the Light version of SAS would be > a hardship for me right now.

Judging from your e-mail pseudonym, you are mostly interested in the statistical aspects of SAS, rather than the data management aspects. In which case, the (GPLed) R project is exactly what you need. It covers a very broad range of statistics, from the elementary to the experimental and nearly everything in between, has graphics facilities which make SAS/GRAPH look old and clumsy, and a complete implementation of the vector- and array-based S programming language which it shares with the commercial S-Plus product. Linear algebra functions are built in. Runs on Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac OS X. See http://www.r-project.org

Tim C