I may not have been as wrong as Prof. Ripley suggested when I wrote "The fastICA packages for Matlab and R (...) have a common origin at the Helsinki University of Technology."
Please consider the following lines from the 'fastICA' help page (?fastICA): FastICA algorithm Description: This is an R and C code implementation of the FastICA algorithm of Aapo Hyvarinen et al. (<URL: http://www.cis.hut.fi/aapo/>) to perform Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and Projection Pursuit. So the C code base is not the same, I guess, but "The code has no connection with Helsinki University of Technology" does not seem to be totally correct. // Hans Werner Borchers Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, someone with no signature wrote: > >> Maura E Monville <maura.monville <at> gmail.com> writes: >> >>> >>> Is the FastICA R implementation as good as the MatLab Implementation ? >>> I would appreciate talking to someone who has used FastICA for R. >> >> The fastICA packages for Matlab and R (and there is even a version for >> Python) >> have a common origin at the Helsinki University of Technology. I >> regularly use > > Have you actually looked at the R one? The code has no connection with > Helsinki University of Technology. 'Credit where credit is due' and all > that. > >> Matlab and R, not seeing much of a difference in packages like these. >> >> // Hans Werner Borchers > > Or quite possibly someone else using Mr Borchers name. > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FastICA-tp18928778p18940982.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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.