Install R/S-PLUS/SAS/VBA for Spring 07 semester

Andy Nguyen

Andy Nguyen

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A new member of our forum, Michael (username mam3xs) will be contributing on Quantnet in the area of S+/SAS/R programming and I thought it would be really cool if we get the required software installed and start doing the sample code that Michael will be posting.
His website is at http://optirisk.googlepages.com You can download many sample code in mentioned programming languages.

I just installed R from http://www.r-project.org/
To download S-Plus for free, please use http://elms03.e-academy.com/splus/
 
this is great, looking forward to seeing works from Michael on QN.
 
I tried to download S-Plus but I couldn't find it using the link that Andy posted.
 
alain said:
I tried to download S-Plus but I couldn't find it using the link that Andy posted.
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From the link I posted, click on Software button (next to Support). The next screen, click on the Download version. On the next screen, you would have to log in.
You need to use your baruch email to sign up and then use that account to log in. I haven't downloaded it.
 
Andy said:
From the link I posted, click on Software button (next to Support). The next screen, click on the Download version. On the next screen, you would have to log in.
You need to use your baruch email to sign up and then use that account to log in. I haven't downloaded it.
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I was able to download the S-Plus 7.0 student edition, you have 365 days to use it. I believe professor Ciresi will use it in his Statistics for Finance class.
 
THanks Andy. There is a delay between registering and getting the icon to download the free version.
 
Andy said:
A new member of our forum, Michael (username mam3xs) will be contributing on Quantnet in the area of S+/SAS/R programming and I thought it would be really cool if we get the required software installed and start doing the sample code that Michael will be posting.
His website is at http://optirisk.googlepages.com You can download many sample code in mentioned programming languages.

I just installed R from http://www.r-project.org/
To download S-Plus for free, please use http://elms03.e-academy.com/splus/
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Is SAS or Splus useful for quant works?
 
has anyone tried to download s plus student edition on the site above?... i signed up using my uni email, logged in, clicked thru the links and downloaded the installer but taking forever to initialise a connection...its not my internet connection, can download gigs of data just fine.. :(
 
Hi

I am a first year Finance Ph.D student. This semester they are teaching us SAS and MATLAB. I was wondering how important SAS is for Quants. In academia most of the profs use it for empirical research but do you guys also need at work and what for?

And maybe someone can compare SAS and similar stat programs?
 
The credit risk management area seems to have a thing for SAS. SAS is comparable to R and Matlab, mostly useful for heavy data processing. If you are already familiar with Matlab and R, or even C++, then I wouldnt invest too much time in learing SAS (I picked it up on the job in a week). Just being familiar with the data step, a few procs (proc SQL, proc IML, etc.), and the macro language is enough.
 
Jonathan said:
The credit risk management area seems to have a thing for SAS. SAS is comparable to R and Matlab, mostly useful for heavy data processing. If you are already familiar with Matlab and R, or even C++, then I wouldnt invest too much time in learing SAS (I picked it up on the job in a week). Just being familiar with the data step, a few procs (proc SQL, proc IML, etc.), and the macro language is enough.
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what you said is partially correct. actually, sas is very powerful if used properly.
1) for large data handling, R/Matlab is not even close.
2) you can SAS to interact with other windows applicants such as excel or access.
3) you can use sas to invoke vba or use vba to call sas.
4) you can use R within sas/iml
5) sas even provides good interface with .net
 
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