Why R

Last week, I gave a presentation to the New York State Department of Health SAS User’s Group. They were a delightfully nice group of people. I spent nearly an hour talking about why a SAS user might want to use R, and they didn’t even throw me out! Delightful. Some audience members had threatened me with tomatoes and other fruit/vegetable matter, but apparently the security officer at the entrance to the Wadsworth Center disarmed them. No fruits, vegetables or speakers were harmed.

The slides can be found here:

I have been invited to do a repeat performance in June, 2015 at the Albany Chapter of the American Statistical Association. For that presentation, I will probably tweak / alter the presentation for this group. To download / view a version of the slides / presentation as I presented to NYSSUG in March 2015, follow the link below to my GitHub account and follow the directions there:

github.com/Choens/why-r/releases/tag/2015-NYSSUG