http://www.doronix.com/statistics
http://www.doronix.com

You can download it there. It’s only 4.5 MB

It is no issue to write an R script that reads from a database and writes out to a csv/hooks up to a VBA script which is able to farm out the results to a PowerPoint on the fly. Debugging is easy in R if you have a good design philosophy and spend more time planning and less time coding. In my previous job I had a very basic filter with SAS and pitched it to the SAS consultant who we were paying big bucks. Not surprisingly he never got back to me. But naturally it didn’t matter – I simply rolled up my sleeves and built a solution in R in 2 hours. What it really comes down to is that R is for people who think outside the box and do things that the SAS guys can’t do or are unable to even think of. R frees the hamster from its wheel and leaves the SAS guys in the dust. SAS’s only defense against R is that “It’s free so you must be getting an inferior product”. R’s learning curve is based upon your discipline, willpower, and mental fortitude. With packages like swirl, etc, there really is no excuse as to not being able to jump into R within 2 hours or less if you have a basic knowledge of object oriented programming. Furthermore, you don’t even need to read a book on R since every answer you could possibly want has already been asked by someone on Google and most of the R books are simply a compilation of the information gleaned from the internet forums.