| 主题 | SAS产品线 | SPSS产品线 | R语言相关包 |
| 高级模块 | SAS/STAT? | SPSS Advanced Models? | stat, MASS及众多扩展包 |
| 基础模块 | SAS? | SPSS Base? | R |
| 联合分析 | SAS/STAT?: Transreg | SPSS Conjoint? | homals, psychoR , bayesm |
| 对应分析 | SAS/STAT?: Corresp | SPSS Categories? | homals, MASS, FactoMineR ade4, PTAk, cocorresp, vegan, made4, PsychoR |
| 自定义表格 | SAS Base? Report、SQL, Tabulate | SPSS Custom Tables? | reshape |
| 数据接口 | SAS/ACCESS? | SPSS Data Access Pack? | DBI, foreign, RODBC |
| 数据挖掘 | Enterprise Miner? | Clementine? | rattle, arules, FactoMineR |
| 数据校验 | Various procedures | Various procedures, SPSS Data Preparation? | dprep, various functions |
| Exact Tests | SAS/STAT?: various | SPSS Exact Tests? | coin, elrm, exactLoglinTest, exactmaxsel, exactRankTests,及其他许多包 |
| 基因分析 | SAS/Genetics?, SAS/Microarray? Solution?, JMP Genomics? | 无 | Bioconductor |
| GIS | SAS/GIS?, SAS/Graph? | SPSS Maps? | maps, mapdata, mapproj, GRASS via spgrass6, RColorBrewer及其他包的部分功能 |
| 交互图 | Enterprise Guide? | SPSS Base? | JGR, R Commander, pmg, Sciviews |
| SAS/INSIGHT? | 无 | GGobi via rggobi iPlots, Mondrian via Rserve | |
| 统计图 | SAS/GRAPH? | SPSS Base? | ggplot, gplots, graphics, grid, gridBase, hexbin, lattice, plotrix, scatterplot3d, vcd, lot, geneplotter, Rgraphics |
| 分析向导 | SAS/LAB? | 无 | 无 |
| 矩阵数学 | SAS/IML?, SAS/IML | SPSS Matrix? | R, matlab, Matrix, sparseM |
| 缺省值分析 | SAS/STAT?: MI | SPSS Missing Values Analysis? | aregImpute (Hmisc), EMV, fit.mult.impute (Design), mice, mitools, mvnmle |
| 统筹研究 | SAS/OR? | 无 | glpk, linprog, LowRankQP, TSP |
| 统计效力检验 | SAS? Power and Sample Size Application, SAS/STAT: Power, GLM Power | SamplePower? | asypow, powerpkg, pwr, MBESS |
| 品质控制 | SAS/QC? | SPSS Base? | qcc, spc |
| 回归模型 | SAS/BASE? | SPSS Regression Models? | R, Hmisc, Design, lasso, VGAM, pda |
| 抽样及调查 | SAS/STAT?: surveymeans,等 | SPSS Complex Samples? | pps, sampfling, sampling, spsurvey, survey |
| 结构方程模型 | SAS/STAT?: Calis | Amos? | sem |
| 文本分析 | Text Miner | SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys?, Text Miner for Clementine? | Rstem, lsa, tm |
| 时间序列 | SAS/ETS? | SPSS Trends? Expert Modeler | 大量的包可完成 |
| 时间序列分析预测 | SAS Forecast Studio? | SPSS Trends, DecisionTime/WhatIf? | 无 |
| 决策树 | Enterprise Miner? | SPSS Classification Trees?, AnswerTree? | ada, adabag, BayesTree, boost, GAMboost, gbev, gbm, maptree, mboost, mvpart, party, pinktoe, quantregForest, rpart, rpart.permutation, randomForest, randomForests, tree |