R for Stats : Updated

Here is the new website for statistical analysis using the free analytical software called R (which is enabled for cloud computing as well : see here http://bit.ly/OhriCloud

or http://rgrossman.com/2009/05/17/running-r-on-amazons-ec2/

for the R tutorial on running it on Amazon’s EC2 pay per demand RAM.

It is called R 4 stats or simply http://www.r4stats.com/

Hosted on Google’s Updated Google Sites Platform- it offers a preview to Bob’s earlier run away hit R for SAS and SPSS users updation as well as his upcoming work R for Stata Users.

In Bob’s words himself –

I have substantially expanded the table that compares SAS and SPSS
add-on modules to somewhat equivalent R packages. This new version is
at:
http://r4stats.com/add-on-modules
and I would very much appreciate any feedback you might have on it.

The site http://r4stats.com is the replacement to
http://RforSASandSPSSusers.com and includes the support files for both
“R for SAS and SPSS Users” and the new “R for Stata Users”, due out in
March from Springer.

Topic	SAS Product	SPSS Product	R Package
Advanced Models	SAS/STAT	IBM SPSS Advanced Statistics	R, MASS, many others
Association Analysis	Enterprise Miner	IBM SPSS Association	arules, arulesNBMiner, arulesSequences
Basics	Base SAS	IBM SPSS Statistics Base	R
Bootstrapping	SAS/STAT	IBM SPSS Bootstrapping	BootCL, BootPR, boot, bootRes, BootStepAIC, bootspecdens, bootstrap, FRB, gPdtest, meboot, multtest, pvclust, rqmcmb2, scaleboot, simpleboot
Classification Analysis	Enterprise Miner	IBM SPSS Classification	rattle, see the neural networks and trees entries in this table.
Conjoint Analysis	SAS/STAT: PROC TRANSREG	IBM SPSS Conjoint	homals, psychoR, bayesm
Correspondence Analysis	SAS/STAT: PROC CORRESP	IBM SPSS Categories	ade4, cocorresp, FactoMineR, homals, made4, MASS, psychoR, PTAk, vegan
Custom Tables	Base SAS, PROC REPORT, PROC SQL, PROC TABULATE, Enterprise Reporter	IBM SPSS Custom Tables	reshape
Data Access	SAS/ACCESS	SPSS Data Access Pack	DBI, foreign, Hmisc: sas.get, sasxport.get, RODBC
Data Collection	SAS/FSP	IBM SPSS Data Collection Family	RSQLite, and the other open source programs MySQL or PostgreSQL are popular among R users for this purpose.
Data Mining	Enterprise Miner	IBM SPSS Modeler (formerly Clementine)	arules, FactoMineR, rattle, various functions
Data Mining, In-database Processing	SAS In-Database Initiative with Teradata	IBM SPSS Modeler	PL/R
Data Preparation	Various procedures	IBM SPSS Data Preparation, various commands	dprep, plyr, reshape, sqldf, various functions
Developer Tools	SAS/AF, SAS/FSP, SAS Integration Technologies, SAS/TOOLKIT	IBM SPSS Statistics Developer, IBM SPSS Statistics Programmability Extension	StatET, R links to most popular compilers, scripting languages, and databases.
Direct Marketing	Nothing quite like it	IBM SPSS Direct Marketing	Nothing quite like it
Exact Tests	SAS/STAT various	IBM SPSS Exact Tests	coin, elrm, exactLoglinTest, exactmaxsel, and options in many others
Excel Integration	SAS Enterprise BI Server	IBM SPSS Advantage for Excel 2007	RExcel
Forecasting	SAS/ETS	IBM SPSS Forecasting	Over 40 packages that do time series are described at the Task View link above under Time Series.
Forecasting, Automated	Forecast Server	IBM SPSS Forecasting	forecast
Genetics	JMP Genomics	None	http://www.bioconductor.org
Geographic Information Systems	SAS/GIS, SAS/GRAPH	None (Maps is defunct)	maps, mapdata, mapproj, GRASS via spgrass6, RColorBrewer, see Spatial in Task Views at link at top
Graphical user interfaces	Enterprise Guide, IML Studio, SAS/ASSIST, Analyst, Insight	IBM SPSS Statistics Base	Deducer, JGR, R Commander, pmg, rattle, many others at http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/
Graphics, Interactive	SAS/IML Studio, SAS/INSIGHT, JMP	None	GGobi via rggobi, iPlots, latticist, playwith
Graphics, Static	SAS/GRAPH	SPSS Base, Graphics Production Language	ggplot2, gplots, graphics, grid, gridBase, hexbin, lattice, plotrix, scatterplot3d, vcd, vioplot, geneplotter, Rgraphics
Graphics, Template Builder	Doesn’t use Grammar of Graphics model that forms the core of IBM SPSS Viz Designer or R’s ggplot2	IBM SPSS Viz Designer	Doesn’t use templates, but this GUI for ggplot2 http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~jeroen/ggplot2.html works similarly to IBM SPSS Viz Designer.
Guided Analytics	SAS/LAB	None	None
Matrix/linear Algebra	SAS/IML Studio	IBM SPSS Matrix	R, matlab, Matrix, sparseM
Missing Values Imputation	SAS/STAT: PROC MI	IBM SPSS Missing Values	amelia, Hmisc: aregImpute, EMV, rms (replaces Design): fit.mult.impute, mice, mitools, mvnmle, VIM
Neural Networks	Enterprise Miner	IBM SPSS Neural Networks	AMORE, grnnR, neuralnet, nnet, rattle
Operations Research	SAS/OR	None	glpk, linprog, LowRankQP, TSP
Power Analysis	SAS Power and Sample Size Application, SAS/STAT: PROC POWER, PROC GLMPOWER	SamplePower	asypow, powerpkg, pwr, MBESS
Quality Control	SAS/QC	IBM SPSS Statistics Base	qcc, spc
Regression Models	SAS/STAT	IBM SPSS Regression	R, Hmisc, lasso, VGAM, pda, rms (replaces Design)
Sampling, Complex	SAS/STAT: PROC SURVEY SELECT, SURVEYMEANS, etc.	IBM SPSS Complex Samples	pps, sampfling, sampling, spsurvey, survey
Segmentation Analysis	Enterprise Miner	IBM Modeler Segmentation	cluster, rattle, som, see CRAN Task Views under Cluster for over 70 packages
Server Version	SAS for your particular server	IBM SPSS Statistics Server, IBM SPSS Modeler Server	rapache, R(D)COM Server, Rserve, StatET
Structural Equation Modeling	SAS/STAT: PROC CALIS	Amos	OpenMX, sem
Text Analysis/Mining	Text Miner	IBM SPSS Text Analytics, IBM SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys	Rstem, las, tm
Trees, Decision, Classification or Regression	Enterprise Miner	IBM SPSS Decision Trees, IBM SPSS AnswerTree, IBM SPSS Modeler (formerly Clementine)	ada, adabag, BayesTree, boost, GAMboost, gbev, gbm, maptree, mboost, mvpart, party, pinktoe, quantregForest, rpart,rpart.permutation, randomForest, rattle, tree

All SAS and SPSS product names are registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Disclaimer- Bob Muenchen and I work for the same University. While we do have interesting conflicts often, his interview was one of the earliest where this blog began.

See- http://sites.google.com/site/r4statistics/interview

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