On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 4:54:45 PM UTC-4, leif wrote: > > kcrisman wrote: > > > > Make R optional? (Nothing in Sage depends on it, except for the > > interface to it, including Rpy2.) > > > > Gosh, R has been standard for*ever*, practically, > > Hört sich nach Schwäbischem Dreiklang an. > > Not being from southern Germany, I have no idea what you're talking about ...
> > > and is often heavily > > advertised as a good reason to use Sage. There are certainly many who > > have been using them together (as mentioned, obviously nowhere near the > > number of "pure" R users, but still we definitely get queries about this > > regularly) > > Well, I guess the ratio of R-thru-Sage users to Sage users is as > "negligible" as that to pure R users. ;-) > > Just today: http://ask.sagemath.org/question/34571/linear-regression-with-r-in-sagemath/ I'm not saying it's a huge user group, but if Sage is actually mathematics software and not "people in number theory" software, it would be nice to have good stats and the tons of optional R packages just waiting. It has definitely been a selling point in many discussions I've had, and I and others have used it ourselves. Note that even for "brial"/polybori which presumably is not a huge user base either we made things work out. How this relates to "Sage-the-package" versus "Sage-The-distro" I don't care as long as it's still in "sage-the-distro". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
