Dear Barry, Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 9:09:19 PM, you wrote:
BR> Wladimir Eremeev wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Research Systems (www.rsinc.com) have developed and distributes the >> language IDL, >> and the GIS ENVI, written in IDL. BR> I find it hard to believe they wrote it all in IDL! I'm guessing its BR> probably scriptable in IDL, but underneath its written in something BR> else... I could be wrong though! Well, not in IDL completely, I think, there is also C and Fortran code underneath. >> To my oppinion, R language is superior, compared to IDL, in all aspects. >> However, ENVI is the rather convenient and feature rich tool. By the way, even the interface to an external code is implemented in R much more conveniently, compared to IDL. It took me several hours to make IDL to call my C functions from DLL. I have read the documentation carefully 2 or 3 times... And I have done the same task in R in several minutes. --- Best regards, Wladimir mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo