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Re:The SAS vs. R Debate by ropz on Sunday March 02, 2014 @10:48AM (#7329484)
These people:

http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/

produce a compiler, tools etc that run the language of SAS.

(disclaimer: I interviewed there last year)

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Re:The SAS vs. R Debate by reeses on Sunday March 02, 2014 @03:31PM (#7330635)
That's awesome. Can you tell us anything about how close they have come and how they've avoided SAS's competitive litigation? :)
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Re:The SAS vs. R Debate by dataminded on Sunday March 02, 2014 @04:40PM (#7330882)
They have been sued and a very interesting ruling came out of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_Institute_Inc._v_World_Prog...

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Re:The SAS vs. R Debate by reeses on Friday March 07, 2014 @07:41PM (#7363699)
Wow, parts of that ruling are stunning. Thank you.
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Re:The SAS vs. R Debate by ropz on Sunday March 02, 2014 @03:58PM (#7330728)
Nope, I don't work there.

Suggest you ask them :)

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