| Topic | SAS Product | SPSS Product | R Package |
AdvancedModels
| SAS/STAT | IBM SPSS AdvancedStatistics
| R, MASS, manyothers
|
AssociationAnalysis
| EnterpriseMiner
| IBM SPSSAssociation
| arules, arulesNBMiner,arulesSequences |
| Basics | Base SAS
| IBM SPSS StatisticsBase
| R |
Bootstrapping
| SAS/STAT
| IBM SPSSBootstrapping
| BootCL, BootPR, boot, bootRes,BootStepAIC, bootspecdens, bootstrap, FRB, gPdtest, meboot,multtest, pvclust, rqmcmb2, scaleboot, simpleboot
|
ClassificationAnalysis
| EnterpriseMiner
| IBM SPSSClassification
| rattle, see the neuralnetworks and trees entries in this table.
|
ConjointAnalysis
| SAS/STAT: PROCTRANSREG
| IBM SPSS Conjoint
| homals, psychoR,bayesm
|
CorrespondenceAnalysis
| SAS/STAT: PROCCORRESP
| IBM SPSS Categories
| ade4, cocorresp, FactoMineR,homals, made4, MASS, psychoR, PTAk, vegan
|
CustomTables
| Base SAS, PROC REPORT, PROCSQL, PROC TABULATE, Enterprise Reporter
| IBM SPSS Custom Tables
| reshape |
DataAccess
| SAS/ACCESS
| SPSS Data AccessPack
| DBI, foreign, Hmisc: sas.get,sasxport.get, RODBC
|
DataCollection
| SAS/FSP
| IBM SPSS Data CollectionFamily
| RSQLite, and the other open source programs MySQL orPostgreSQL are popular among R users for thispurpose.
|
DataMining
| EnterpriseMiner
| IBM SPSS Modeler
(formerly Clementine)
| arules, FactoMineR, rattle,various functions
|
Data Mining,In-database Processing
| SAS In-Database Initiativewith Teradata
| IBM SPSSModeler
| PL/R |
DataPreparation
| Variousprocedures
| IBM SPSS Data Preparation, variouscommands
| dprep, plyr, reshape, sqldf,various functions
|
DeveloperTools
| SAS/AF, SAS/FSP, SASIntegration Technologies, SAS/TOOLKIT | IBM SPSS Statistics Developer,IBM SPSS Statistics Programmability Extension
| StatET, R links to most popular compilers, scriptinglanguages, and databases.
|
DirectMarketing
| Nothing quite likeit
| IBM SPSS Direct Marketing
| Nothing quite likeit
|
ExactTests
| SAS/STATvarious
| IBM SPSS Exact Tests
| coin, elrm, exactLoglinTest,exactmaxsel, and options in many others
|
ExcelIntegration
| SAS Enterprise BIServer | IBM SPSS Advantage for Excel2007
| RExcel
|
Forecasting
| SAS/ETS
| IBM SPSSForecasting
| Over 40 packages that do timeseries are described at the Task View link above under TimeSeries.
|
Forecasting,Automated
| Forecast Server | IBM SPSSForecasting
| forecast
|
| Genetics | JMP Genomics
| None | http://www.bioconductor.org
|
Geographic InformationSystems
| SAS/GIS,SAS/GRAPH
| None (Maps isdefunct)
| maps, mapdata, mapproj, GRASSvia spgrass6, RColorBrewer, see Spatial in Task Views at link attop
|
Graphical userinterfaces
| Enterprise Guide, IML Studio,SAS/ASSIST, Analyst, Insight
| IBM SPSS StatisticsBase | Deducer, JGR, R Commander,pmg, rattle, many others at http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/
|
Graphics,Interactive
| SAS/IML Studio, SAS/INSIGHT,JMP
| None
| GGobi via rggobi,iPlots, latticist,playwith
|
Graphics,Static
| SAS/GRAPH
| SPSS Base, Graphics ProductionLanguage
| ggplot2, gplots, graphics,grid, gridBase, hexbin, lattice, plotrix, scatterplot3d, vcd,vioplot, geneplotter, Rgraphics
|
Graphics, TemplateBuilder
| Doesn’t useGrammar of Graphics model that forms the core of IBM SPSS VizDesigner or R’s ggplot2
| IBM SPSS VizDesigner
| Doesn’t usetemplates, but this GUI for ggplot2 http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~jeroen/ggplot2.html workssimilarly to IBM SPSS Viz Designer.
|
GuidedAnalytics
| SAS/LAB
| None
| None
|
Matrix/linearAlgebra
| SAS/IMLStudio
| IBM SPSS Matrix
| R, matlab, Matrix,sparseM
|
Missing ValuesImputation
| SAS/STAT: PROCMI
| IBM SPSS Missing Values
| amelia, Hmisc: aregImpute,EMV, rms (replaces Design): fit.mult.impute, mice, mitools, mvnmle,VIM
|
NeuralNetworks
| EnterpriseMiner
| IBM SPSS Neural Networks
| AMORE, grnnR, neuralnet, nnet,rattle
|
OperationsResearch
| SAS/OR
| None
| glpk, linprog, LowRankQP,TSP
|
PowerAnalysis
| SAS Power and Sample SizeApplication, SAS/STAT:
PROC POWER,
PROC GLMPOWER
| SamplePower
| asypow, powerpkg, pwr,MBESS
|
QualityControl
| SAS/QC
| IBM SPSS StatisticsBase | qcc, spc
|
RegressionModels
| SAS/STAT
| IBM SPSS Regression
| R, Hmisc, lasso, VGAM, pda,rms (replaces Design)
|
Sampling,Complex
| SAS/STAT: PROC SURVEY SELECT,SURVEYMEANS, etc.
| IBM SPSS Complex Samples
| pps, sampfling, sampling,spsurvey, survey
|
SegmentationAnalysis
| EnterpriseMiner
| IBM ModelerSegmentation
| cluster, rattle, som, see CRANTask Views under Cluster for over 70packages
|
ServerVersion
| SAS for your particularserver | IBM SPSS StatisticsServer,
IBM SPSS Modeler Server
| rapache, R(D)COM Server,Rserve, StatET |
Structural EquationModeling
| SAS/STAT: PROCCALIS
| Amos | OpenMX, sem
|
TextAnalysis/Mining
| Text Miner
| IBM SPSS Text Analytics,
IBM SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys
| Rstem, las,tm
|
Trees, Decision,Classification or Regression
| EnterpriseMiner
| IBM SPSS Decision Trees, IBM SPSS AnswerTree, IBM SPSSModeler (formerly Clementine)
| ada, adabag, BayesTree, boost,GAMboost, gbev, gbm, maptree, mboost, mvpart, party, pinktoe,
quantregForest, rpart,rpart.permutation, randomForest, rattle,tree |