R for SAS and SPSS Users [zz]

Topic	SAS Product	SPSS Product	R Package
Advanced Models	SAS/STAT	IBM SPSS Advanced Statistics	R, MASS, many others
Association Analysis	Enterprise Miner	IBM SPSS Association	arules, arulesNBMiner, arulesSequences
Basics	Base SAS	IBM SPSS Statistics Base	R
Bootstrapping	SAS/STAT	IBM SPSS Bootstrapping	BootCL, BootPR, boot, bootRes, BootStepAIC, bootspecdens, bootstrap, FRB, gPdtest, meboot, multtest, pvclust, rqmcmb2, scaleboot, simpleboot
Classification Analysis	Enterprise Miner	IBM SPSS Classification	rattle, see the neural networks and trees entries in this table.
Conjoint Analysis	SAS/STAT: PROC TRANSREG	IBM SPSSConjoint	homals, psychoR, bayesm
Correspondence Analysis	SAS/STAT: PROC CORRESP	IBM SPSSCategories	ade4, cocorresp, FactoMineR, homals, made4, MASS, psychoR, PTAk, vegan
Custom Tables	Base SAS, PROC REPORT, PROC SQL, PROC TABULATE, Enterprise Reporter	IBM SPSSCustom Tables	reshape
Data Access	SAS/ACCESS	SPSS Data Access Pack	DBI, foreign, Hmisc: sas.get, sasxport.get, RODBC
Data Collection	SAS/FSP	IBM SPSS Data Collection Family	RSQLite, and the other open source programs MySQL or PostgreSQL are popular among R users for this purpose.
Data Mining	Enterprise Miner	IBM SPSSModeler (formerly Clementine)	arules, FactoMineR, rattle, various functions
Data Mining, In-database Processing	SAS In-Database Initiative with Teradata	IBM SPSS Modeler	PL/R
Data Preparation	Various procedures	IBM SPSS Data Preparation, various commands	dprep, plyr, reshape, sqldf, various functions
Developer Tools	SAS/AF, SAS/FSP, SAS Integration Technologies, SAS/TOOLKIT	IBM SPSS Statistics Developer, IBM SPSS Statistics Programmability Extension	StatET, R links to most popular compilers, scripting languages, and databases.
Direct Marketing	Nothing quite like it	IBM SPSS Direct Marketing	Nothing quite like it
Exact Tests	SAS/STAT various	IBM SPSS Exact Tests	coin, elrm, exactLoglinTest, exactmaxsel, and options in many others
Excel Integration	SAS Enterprise BI Server	IBM SPSS Advantage for Excel 2007	RExcel
Forecasting	SAS/ETS	IBM SPSS Forecasting	Over 40 packages that do time series are described at the Task View link above under Time Series.
Forecasting, Automated	Forecast Server	IBM SPSS Forecasting	forecast
Genetics	JMP Genomics	None	http://www.bioconductor.org
Geographic Information Systems	SAS/GIS, SAS/GRAPH	None (Maps is defunct)	maps, mapdata, mapproj, GRASS via spgrass6, RColorBrewer, see Spatial in Task Views at link at top
Graphical user interfaces	Enterprise Guide, IML Studio, SAS/ASSIST, Analyst, Insight	IBM SPSS Statistics Base	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 Production Language	ggplot2, gplots, graphics, grid, gridBase, hexbin, lattice, plotrix, scatterplot3d, vcd, vioplot, geneplotter, Rgraphics
Graphics, Template Builder	Doesn’t use Grammar of Graphics model that forms the core of IBM SPSS Viz Designer or R’s ggplot2	IBM SPSS Viz Designer	Doesn’t use templates, but this GUI for ggplot2http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~jeroen/ggplot2.htmlworks similarly to IBM SPSS Viz Designer.
Guided Analytics	SAS/LAB	None	None
Matrix/linear Algebra	SAS/IML Studio	IBM SPSS Matrix	R, matlab, Matrix, sparseM
Missing Values Imputation	SAS/STAT: PROC MI	IBM SPSSMissing Values	amelia, Hmisc: aregImpute, EMV, rms (replaces Design): fit.mult.impute, mice, mitools, mvnmle, VIM
Neural Networks	Enterprise Miner	IBM SPSSNeural Networks	AMORE, grnnR, neuralnet, nnet, rattle
Operations Research	SAS/OR	None	glpk, linprog, LowRankQP, TSP
Power Analysis	SAS Power and Sample Size Application, SAS/STAT: PROC POWER, PROC GLMPOWER	SamplePower	asypow, powerpkg, pwr, MBESS
Quality Control	SAS/QC	IBM SPSS Statistics Base	qcc, spc
Regression Models	SAS/STAT	IBM SPSSRegression	R, Hmisc, lasso, VGAM, pda, rms (replaces Design)
Sampling, Complex	SAS/STAT: PROC SURVEY SELECT, SURVEYMEANS, etc.	IBM SPSSComplex Samples	pps, sampfling, sampling, spsurvey, survey
Segmentation Analysis	Enterprise Miner	IBM Modeler Segmentation	cluster, rattle, som, see CRAN Task Viewsunder Cluster for over 70 packages
Server Version	SAS for your particular server	IBM SPSS Statistics Server, IBM SPSS Modeler Server	rapache, R(D)COM Server, Rserve, StatET
Structural Equation Modeling	SAS/STAT: PROC CALIS	Amos	OpenMX, sem
Text Analysis/Mining	Text Miner	IBM SPSS Text Analytics, IBM SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys	Rstem, las, tm
Trees, Decision, Classification or Regression	Enterprise Miner	IBM SPSSDecision Trees, IBM SPSS AnswerTree, IBM SPSS Modeler (formerly Clementine)	ada, adabag, BayesTree, boost, GAMboost, gbev, gbm, maptree, mboost, mvpart, party, pinktoe, quantregForest, rpart,rpart.permutation, randomForest, rattle, tree

 

From http://decisionstats.com/2010/01/20/r-for-stats-forever/