Hey, > What we should really compare is the four situations: > R alone > R + awk > R + vilno > R + awk + vilno > and maybe "R + SAS Data step" > and see what scripts are more elegant (read 'short and understandable')
what do you guys think of creating a R-wiki page for syntax comparisons among the various options to enhance R use? I already have two sugestions: 1) syntax examples for using R and other tools to manipulate and analyze large datasets (with a concise description of the datasets); 2) syntax examples for using R and other tools (or R alone) to clean and prepare datasets (simple and very small datasets, for didatic purposes). I think this could be interesting for R users and to promote other software tools, since it seems there is a lot of R users that use other tools also. Besides that, questions on those two above subjects are prevalent at this list. Thus a wiki page seems to be the right place to discuss and teach this to other users. What do you think? Rogerio ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.