Sas Vs Stata. R is commonly used with rstudio a comfortable. Pharmaceutical companies health researchers large accounting firms weird i know some finance companies credit.
To begin with sas is in its version 9 and has also enhanced its visual appeal greatly. I refuse to use spss. Sas is better at import it can import a wider range of data types and export and at displaying results in different formats although stata has caught up a little recently.
A comparison of r python sas spss and stata.
By specifying the file extension as dta sas understands that the sas data file mydata in the work directory will be converted to a stata file. In the process of conversion sas will automatically convert the variable labels and value labels as well. Sas has a very powerful macro capability to expedite repetitious tasks. For example within stata numbers are ordered like this.
