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A January New York Times article on the R open-source statistical programming environment catalysed a change in attitude at SAS, the largest independent BI and analytics vendor. In just one month, SAS’s position swerved from disdain — the Times quoted Anne H. Milley, SAS director of technology product marketing, as opining, “We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet.” — to embrace with an admission that “both R and SAS are here to stay, and finding ways to make them work better with each other is in the best interests of our customers.” And that’s good news, for SAS and for R.

The February SAS press release quoted above says an R interface for SAS/IML Studio — IML is the Interactive Matrix Language — is scheduled for release this summer. “‘This is just the first step,’ said Radhika Kulkarni, vice president of advanced analytics. ‘We are busy working on an R interface that can be surfaced in the SAS server or via other SAS clients.’”

SAS Gets with the (Open Source) Program | The Intelligent Enterprise Blog

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