Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics

Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by euroclydon on Friday January 23, 2015 @01:10PM (#8936282)

Got me thinking about what is means for SAS, and found:

R vs SAS, why is SAS preferred by private companies?

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/33780/r-vs-sas-why-...

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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by vishalzone2002 on Friday January 23, 2015 @01:27PM (#8936366)

I think this is a big threat to them. I find R more powerful than SAS. With Tibco and microsoft behind the language now, it is going to eat a lot of market.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by IndianAstronaut on Friday January 23, 2015 @03:11PM (#8936969)

Code that was written for SAS in the 80s still runs today.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by michaelhoffman on Friday January 23, 2015 @05:13PM (#8937660)

Code that was written for S in the 80s still runs on R today.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by RockyMcNuts on Friday January 23, 2015 @06:43PM (#8938096)

If it has any loops, almost as slowly and uselessly as it did then :)

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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by jfolson on Friday January 23, 2015 @07:34PM (#8938284)

Not really. All packages are bytecode compiled, so unless you doing something stupid, for loops are much faster than they used to be in R.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by RockyMcNuts on Sunday January 25, 2015 @04:09PM (#8944261)

good to know...was doing something in 2013 that couldn't be vectorized (lots of portfolio simulation calcs where each element in dataframe depended on previous elements, ie portfolio value + market return - spending based on moving average of portfolio value) and it was pretty horrible, trying to use Rcpp and whatnot to speed it up!

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