I agree! SAS is the default in the medical industry like S-Plus was in academia a few years ago. For me R has overtaken both and after moving from S-Plus I was shocked by how much more is available in R. I had to do a generalised partial least squares analysis recently (with a multinomial rather than continuous response and several thousand covariates). My employers had MATLAB, SAS, S-PLUS and GENSTAT. Only R could do the job with the gpls package! And if your into bioinformatics R is the ONLY option for me!
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