Course*** S-PLUS / R: Complementing and Extending Statistical Computing for SAS Users*** October 2005

[elvis@xlsolutions-corp.com]

 

 

XSolutions Corp (www.xlsolutions-corp.com) is proud to announce
our   October 2005 "S-PLUS / R: Complementing and Extending Statistical Computing for SAS Users" in Raleigh

and Washington, DC

http://xlsolutions-corp.com/Rsas.htm

 

********* Raleigh  ------------------------ October 24th-25th, 2005

********* Washington, DC ------------ October 27th-28th, 2005

 

 

Ask for group discount and reserve your seat Now  (payment due after
the class)

Email Sue Turner:  sue@xlsolutions-corp.com

 

 

This course is designed for users who want to learn how to complement and extend statistical computing of SAS with the S or R system. The course will give SAS users a strong foundation for becoming a versatile R/Splus programmer.

 

Course Topics

Day 1

• An Overview of resources: installation and demonstration, the R project/core; CRAN; the distribution for UNIX and windows systems; the package concept; literature: Venables and Ripley, Chambers and Hastie, other publications.
• A Comparison of R and S-PLUS
• Quick review of the SAS environment: the OS interface, the data step, macros, procs, reports. Issues of data archiving with SSD format; interfaces to DBMS
• Data manipulations in S and R (data frame and matrix operations) and SAS (the data step) -- issues of importing, formatting, transformation, cataloging, exporting
• Functions vs macros in SAS for programming repetitive processes.
• The iteration models of SAS vs whole-object modeling

Day 2

• Statistical modeling support in R/S vs SAS PROCS.
• Integrated documentation and example processing in R/S.
• Post-processing of function output in R/S vs OUTPUT datasets in SAS.
• Specific comparisons: linear modeling, glms, gees, lmes
• Report Writing
• Extending the systems for new data structures and new algorithms

 

Please let us know if you and your colleagues are interested in this
class
to take advantage of group discount. Register now to secure your seat in this
course!

 

 

Cheers,

Elvis Miller, PhD
Manager Training.
XLSolutions Corporation
206 686 1578
www.xlsolutions-corp.com