Date:         Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:19:55 -0500
Reply-To:     Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE>
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From:         Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      Re: SAS Graph questions

Just one or two things:

with ODS-HTML it is no problem to get multiple reports on one page. We
often had several graphs and/or graphs and lists on one page!
A second thing: you should never compare SAS V9-GRAPH with SAS V6-GRAPH!
If you heared "bad things" in V6, forget it! It is much better now!

I don't know R, so I can't compare that. I've seen some interactive
creation with Crystal Report (not sure if the name is still so): it was
very good! It seemed to be better than SAS and the results were nice!
However I don't want to miss the data manipulation possibilities and I
prefer a solution in "one world", not SAS as programming tool and another
product to present the data.

Gerhard



On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:01:33 -0500, Bob_Abelson@HGSI.COM wrote:

>Having used both SAS/GRAPH and R, I feel somewhat qualified to comment.
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>It's nice to have SAS/GRAPH to get a quick look at your data, or for
>checking model assumptions. But it's a lot harder to do things like
>multiple graphs on a page, which is pretty easy in R. It's easy in general
>to get great looking graphs from R, but to get graphs from SAS that look
>just as good usually requires a lot of effort. I'm not saying it can't be
>done (I've seen some very impressive graphs generated by SAS) but it takes
>more work.
>
>Bob Abelson
>HGSI
>240 314 4400 x1374
>bob_abelson@hgsi.com
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>"Peter Flom" <Flom@NDRI.ORG>
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>I just got access to SAS Graph.
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>Never used it before.   I've been using R for graphics, and that's a
>great program.  But I'd like to learn SAS Graph as well.
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>Two questions:
>1) Should I bother?  I've heard some negative things about SAS
>Graph.....Still, it would be nice not to have to change programs all the
>time.
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>2) If I should bother, what book or SUGI papers would you recommend?
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>thanks
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>Peter