Peter et. al: 1. I agree with Duncan: wrong list.
2. AFAIK, Spotfire **already** can interface with R. -- Bert On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:17 AM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 11, 2012, at 16:28 , Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> On 12-01-11 10:13 AM, John Smith wrote: >>> Dear R users, >>> >>> I have been using R for 10 years, and I love it very much. But in my daily >>> job for drug discovery, some people use Spotfire. I tried Spotfire on >>> couple of data sets. It sounds I still need do some data manipulation >>> before plot figures. For example, I can not plot figure with data arranged >>> in rows (is this true, or I am stupid?). So far I don't feel any benefit >>> Spotfire can provide over R. I am just wondering whether it just because I >>> am new to Spotfire, or it's true that Spotfire is not a good tool for >>> statistician. >>> >>> Also could anyone give me any suggestion how to learn Spotfire? >> >> Shouldn't you be asking this question to Spotfire users? > > Just to clue in the casual reader, Spotfire embeds a version of S+, which is, > er, sort of, like, a predecessor to R, so John is not completely off target. > > Documents comparing R and S+ should be useful to him. There are books that > are "bilingual", such as Venables and Ripley MASS and S Programming, but I > also spotted this on TIBCO's own site: > > http://spotfire.tibco.com/community/blogs/stn/archive/2010/11/04/differences-between-r-and-spotfire-s.aspx > > Also, there are (claimed to be) facilities to integrate R itself in Spotfire, > which could be a rather expedient solution. > > >> Duncan Murdoch >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.