[R] R-question

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Wensui Liu wrote:
> For your 1st question, you can write query against the tables in DB using RODBC.
> 
> Being a SAS programmer, I have to say that reporting function of R is
> not as good as that of SAS.

I beg to differ.  See for example 
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/StatReport

Frank Harrell
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/13/06, Thorsten Muehge <MUEHGE at de.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Colleagues,
>> I programmed in SAS for 3 years and would like to switch to a not so costly
>> software product.
>>
>> Hence I started to evaluate R, and my first test look promising.
>>
>> However I have some question:
>>
>> 1. Is it possible to query R files by SQL internally on data frames (not on
>> a database) and how is the syntax (I have the RODBC package installed).
>>
>> I would like to extract year, Quarter, week, from a date column in a data
>> frame (see attachment). After this I want to attach the column to the
>> original data frame.
>>
>> How do I do this in R?
>>
>> Dr .Th.Mühge,
>>
>> PMP(r)
>> Procurement Technology Center
>> IBM Deutschland GmbH, Hechtsheimer Str.2, D-55131 Mainz
>> Phone: xx49-(0)6131-84-2416
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>> e-mail: muehge at de.ibm.com
>> (See attached file: Debug1.csv)
>>
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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University