Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:01:49 -0400
Reply-To: "Long, Stuart (NIH/NIEHS) [C]" <long3@NIEHS.NIH.GOV>
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From: "Long, Stuart (NIH/NIEHS) [C]" <long3@NIEHS.NIH.GOV>
Subject: Re: Is R overtaking SAS at universities and colleges?
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Alas, I am just a GRUNT, providing statistical programming services as a
contractor. However, I think that touting SAS knowledge and experience
is still a huge plus in placing a successful bid on a federal contract.
Stuart Long
Contractor
Westat
Senior Analyst
919-941-8307
-----Original Message-----
From: Mary [mailto:mlhoward@avalon.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:55 AM
To: Long, Stuart (NIH/NIEHS) [C]; SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Re: Is R overtaking SAS at universities and colleges?
Stuart (I can't help noticing the "NIH" in your name),
Perhaps you could ask at the NIH for us! It would seem that acceptance
would come at the NIH before the FDA, since many NIH grants are to
universities (I'm on an NIH grant), whereas the FDA more deals with
pharmaceutical firms.
Certainly, if people on NIH grants start publishing papers that have
statistical analysis done in R, then that would "open the flood gates",
as it were to more people using R to do their analysis. I would think
that the FDA would be more conservative in requiring the use of SAS for
longer than the NIH would. Many statistical analysts just coming out of
college may get their first jobs on NIH grants at universities, and
would naturally use R if that is what they've been trained in unless
there's an NIH requirement prohibiting it; even if there is, they may
still use R for exploratory work and switch over to SAS for formal work.
Thus, Stuart, do you know anything about the NIH's feelings towards
using R for statistical analysis?
-Mary
----- Original Message -----
From: Long, Stuart (NIH/NIEHS) [C] <mailto:long3@niehs.nih.gov>
To: Mary <mailto:mlhoward@avalon.net> ; SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:38 AM
Subject: RE: Re: Is R overtaking SAS at universities and
colleges?
What does the FDA (or any federal department that hands out
grants)
think of R? That might be an important question to consider if
R is
currently a threat to replace SAS.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mary [mailto:mlhoward@AVALON.NET]
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:32 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Is R overtaking SAS at universities and colleges?
Because if R is overtaking SAS at universities and colleges, it
will
likely become more prevalent in the workplace, and thus existing
statistical programmers will need to learn and use it in order
to
continue to be employable.
-Mary
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: Is R overtaking SAS at universities and colleges?
Why bother?
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