{"id":321,"date":"2010-02-02T20:09:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T18:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2011-02-09T20:22:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T18:22:35","slug":"the-power-to-what-did-you-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/the-power-to-what-did-you-say\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power to &#8230; What did you say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is just about a year ago (exactly January 6th, 2009) that a New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/07\/technology\/business-computing\/07program.html?_r=3&amp;scp=2&amp;sq=R%20&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-project.org\" target=\"_blank\">R<\/a> did fuel the dispute on what statistical analysis tool is &#8220;the best&#8221;. One of the highlight of the article was a quote from SAS&#8217; Anne H. Milley:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; \"><em>\u201cI think it addresses a niche market for high-end data analysts that want free, readily available code,&#8221; said <\/em><strong><em><span style=\"font-family: mceinline;\">Anne H. Milley<\/span><\/em><\/strong><em>, director of technology product marketing at SAS. She adds, \u201cWe have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I recently found a SAS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.com\/news\/preleases\/RintegrationSGF09.html\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> (dating March 23, 2009) entitled: &#8220;SAS to offer R integration to support analytical innovation&#8221;, which reads:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cIt is no secret that SAS has been working on interfacing with R,\u201d said<\/em><strong><em> <span style=\"font-family: mceinline;\">Anne Milley<\/span><\/em><\/strong><em>, SAS\u2019 Senior Director of Technology Product Marketing. \u201cSAS and R are here to stay, and as organizations work to harness the full potential of their data, an expanded set of analytics options can only help.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>First let&#8217;s be cheerful about this move (whatever the actual solution will look like anyway), but on the other side, if Anne Milley&#8217;s quotes stand for SAS&#8217; reliability, I doubt they deserve their reputation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is just about a year ago (exactly January 6th, 2009) that a New York Times article on R did fuel the dispute on what statistical analysis tool is &#8220;the best&#8221;. One of the highlight of the article was a quote from SAS&#8217; Anne H. Milley: \u201cI think it addresses a niche market for high-end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r","category-reference","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}