[R] Entire Organization Switching from SAS to R - Any experience?

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Kel Lam wrote:
> My institute has been heavily dependent on SAS for the past while, and
> SAS is starting to charge us a very deep amount for license renewal.
> Since we are a non-profit organization that is definitely not
> sustainable.  The team is brainstorming possibility of switching to R,
> at least gradually.  I am talking about the entire institute with
> considerable number of analysts using SAS their entire career.
> There’s a handful of us using R regularly.  What kind of problems and
> challenges have you faced?  Any insight is much appreciated.  Thank
> you very much!
> 
> Kelvin

One of your challenges will be that with the increased productivity of 
the team you will have time for more intellectually challenging 
problems.  That frustrates some people.

Frank

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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University