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The Popularity of Data Analysis Software: R vs SAS vs SPSS |
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A comparison of popularity of R, SAS, SPSS and other data analysis software packages, as measured by discussions, citations, jobs, and more.
Robert A. Muenchen, the author of R for SAS and SPSS Users, has published
an article where he compares the
popularity of different data analysis software packages.
Among more interesting observations
- R has the largest number of email discussions (by 2-to-1 margin), followed by Stata and SAS
- the number of R packages published on CRAN continues to grow exponentially
- R is leading in blogs (170), with only 31 blogs for 2nd place SAS
- However, as measured by job ads on Monster.com, jobs with SAS and SPSS have a big lead over jobs with R
[ Gregory PS: Among
jobs posted on KDnuggets in 2010,
SAS was mentioned in 41%, SPSS in 15%, and R in 14% of the jobs. ]
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