For SAS users, one hassle in trying things in R, let alone migrating, is the difficulty of getting data out of SAS and into R. In our book (section 1.2.2) and in a blog entry we've covered getting data out of SAS native data sets. Unfortunately, for ...

Some people use both SAS and R in their daily work. They might be more familiar with SAS as a tool for manipulating data and R preferable for plotting purposes. While our goal in the book is to enable people to avoid having to switch back and forth, ...