It came up for me. However, that's just a speed comparison, which said that R 1.9.0 was comparable with the best available, better than most but not necessarily the best depending on the task.
I would think you might be more concerned with accuracy and ease of use, and I suggest you Google and do an R site search, as I suggested. This has been discussed repeately on this list, and a search should expose many useful comments. spencer graves ronggui wrote: > On Wed, 04 May 2005 10:22:01 +0200 > Cuvelier Etienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>At 16:52 3/05/2005 -0300, rene.raupp wrote: >> >>>Does anybory knows any work comparing R with other (charged) statistical >>>softwares (like Minitab, SPSS, SAS)? >>>I work in a brasilian government bureau and I intend to use R as our >>>preferable statistical software, but I have to show it's as good as the >>>others. I also intend to use Weka, and for this one I have the same problem. >>>Can anyone help me? >> >>The results of a Benchmark test of various number crunching packages (R >>1.9.0, S-PLUS 6.1, Matlab 6.0, O-Matrix 5.6 Ml mode, >>O-Matrix 5.6 native, Octave 2.1.42, Scilab 2.7, Ox 3.30) can be found at : >>http://www.sciviews.org/benchmark/index.html > > > i can NOT connect with the website .i do not why.anyone else come across this > problem? > > > > >>>Thanks >>>René M. Raupp >>>e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>>______________________________________________ >>>R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >>>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>>PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> >>Cuvelier Etienne >>Assistant >>FUNDP - Institut d'Informatique >>rue Grandgagnage, 21 B-5000 Namur (Belgique) >>tel: 32.81.72.49.93 fax: 32.81.72.49.67 >> >>______________________________________________ >>R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html