Okay, it is barely possible to make a decent looking SAS graphic with a half page of code, painfully specified to remove the abjectly painful default look. So imagine my susrpise when R and STATA do good looking graphics with a one line command. Sure, it might occasionally be a long line but still . . . Even EXCEL does this a lot better.
Why is SAS different?
It might seem like a minor point but there is a fair bit of truth to the idea that (easy to use) graphical represenations of data are extremely helpful.
The longer I work with SAS (since 1997) the more I wonder about this . . .
Getting SAS to spit out a halfway decent looking anything was one of the prouder days of my professional life.
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