表：R与SAS、SPSS之比较
主题SAS产品线
SPSS产品线
R语言相关包
高级模块
SAS/STAT®
SPSS Advanced Models™
stat, MASS及众多扩展包
基础模块
SAS®
SPSS Base™
R
联合分析
SAS/STAT®: Transreg
SPSS Conjoint™
homals, psychoR , bayesm
对应分析
SAS/STAT®: Corresp
SPSS Categories™
homals, MASS, FactoMineR
ade4, PTAk, cocorresp, vegan, made4, PsychoR
自定义表格
SAS Base® Report、SQL, Tabulate
SPSS Custom Tables™
reshape
数据接口
SAS/ACCESS®
SPSS Data Access Pack™
DBI, foreign, RODBC
数据挖掘
Enterprise Miner™
Clementine®
rattle, arules, FactoMineR
数据校验
Various procedures
Various procedures,
SPSS Data Preparation™
dprep, various functions
Exact Tests
SAS/STAT®: various
SPSS Exact Tests™
coin, elrm, exactLoglinTest,
exactmaxsel, exactRankTests,及其他许多包
基因分析
SAS/Genetics®,
SAS/Microarray®
Solution®, JMP
Genomics®
无
Bioconductor
GIS
SAS/GIS®,
SAS/Graph®
SPSS Maps™
maps, mapdata, mapproj,
GRASS via spgrass6,
RColorBrewer及其他包的部分功能
交互图
Enterprise Guide®
SPSS Base™
JGR, R Commander, pmg,
Sciviews
SAS/INSIGHT®
无
GGobi via rggobi
iPlots, Mondrian via Rserve
统计图
SAS/GRAPH®
SPSS Base™
ggplot, gplots, graphics, grid, gridBase, hexbin, lattice, plotrix, scatterplot3d, vcd, lot, geneplotter, Rgraphics
分析向导
SAS/LAB®
无
无
矩阵数学
SAS/IML®, SAS/IML
SPSS Matrix™
R, matlab, Matrix, sparseM
缺省值分析
SAS/STAT®: MI
SPSS Missing Values Analysis™
aregImpute (Hmisc), EMV,
fit.mult.impute (Design), mice,
mitools, mvnmle
统筹研究
SAS/OR®
无
glpk, linprog, LowRankQP, TSP
统计效力检验
SAS® Power and
Sample Size
Application,
SAS/STAT: Power,
GLM Power
SamplePower™
asypow, powerpkg, pwr,
MBESS
品质控制
SAS/QC®
SPSS Base™
qcc, spc
回归模型
SAS/BASE®
SPSS Regression
Models™
R, Hmisc, Design, lasso, VGAM, pda
抽样及调查
SAS/STAT®:
surveymeans,等
SPSS Complex Samples™
pps, sampfling, sampling,
spsurvey, survey
结构方程模型
SAS/STAT®: Calis
Amos™
sem
文本分析
Text Miner
SPSS Text Analysis for
Surveys™, Text Miner
for Clementine®
Rstem, lsa, tm
时间序列
SAS/ETS®
SPSS Trends™ Expert
Modeler
大量的包可完成
时间序列分析预测
SAS Forecast
Studio®
SPSS Trends,
DecisionTime/WhatIf™
无
决策树
Enterprise Miner™
SPSS Classification
Trees™, AnswerTree™
ada, adabag, BayesTree,
boost, GAMboost, gbev, gbm,
maptree, mboost, mvpart,
party, pinktoe,
quantregForest, rpart,
rpart.permutation,
randomForest,
randomForests, tree