Amazon.com
I am a long time SAS user who is surrounded by R experts. As such, I have been looking, for years, for a dictionary to translate between R and SAS. That is what this book is designed to do and it is absolutely excellent for this purpose. It covers all the SAS data manipulation and graphics procedures and functions that I use all the time and it shows how to do them in R. Happily the book is very up to date and the most modern (9.21) SAS graphics procedures (like sgplot) are covered.
The organization and indexing are fantastic. There is a table of contents, an index with SAS vocabulary, an index of R vocabulary and an overall index. Using these tools you can quickly find the procedure/methods that you want to accomplish and get parallel code snippets in both languages along with annotation to say what the differences are between the two implementations. In addition to the pure dictionary organization there are extended examples working through the analysis and visualization of a large data set.
The book is not a textbook on the fundamental differences between R and SAS, like the different approach to objects and data sets. For a real text on that take a look at R for SAS and SPSS Users (Statistics and Computing).
Amazon will not let me post the link to the book's website but if you search the web for the authors' last names and Smith (as in the liberal arts college in Northampton Mass) you should be able to see it. There you will find a PDF with the table of contents, code snippets and lots of supporting material.
This book is a must for people moving to R from SAS (or the other direction) and it should be excellent for people needing a dictionary to find functions/procedures to do data manipulation and graphic(s) tasks in either language.
Read entire review