The operation time of well known three kinds statistical packages-SAS, MINITAB, R- were examined, and the results obtained were as follows : SAS is the fastest among three packages. But SAS is very expensive. Minitab is slowest, and under some conditi...
The operation time of well known three kinds statistical packages-SAS, MINITAB, R- were examined, and the results obtained were as follows : SAS is the fastest among three packages. But SAS is very expensive. Minitab is slowest, and under some condition Minitab can not operate becase of overflow. Compared to the SAS, R has similar speed with SAS. Many of the researchers have participated in the development of R program, and R is free. For this reason the R is a good alternative