The Popularity of Data Analysis Software: R vs SAS vs SPSS

As posted on KDDnuggets. A paper written by Robert A. Muenchen.

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, jobs mentioned SAS and SPSS have a big lead over jobs mentioning R

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