On 5/20/10 9:56 AM, David Kirkby wrote:
I gave a talk last night at the London Open Solaris User Group (LOSUG)
with the title "Porting Sage open source mathematics software to
OpenSolaris". I've stuck a copy of the presentation at
http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/talks/Sage-LOSUG-19-5-2010--by-David-R-Kirkby.odp
The talk generated quite a bit of interest - I lost count of the
number of questions. Someone emailed me today, to ask about
statisticians using Sage. I won't forward his message, since I don't
have his permission to do so, but the relevant bit is:
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I had one specific question that I didn't think was of general
interest: I work in a statistics research unit and I had already
downloaded (your?) solaris-10 sparc build before the talk.
I wanted to ask, do you think sage offers a statistician (as opposed
to a mathematician)? Perhaps I should ask if you know of any
statisticians already using sage?
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I'm sure there are people far better placed to answer that question than me.
One obvious thing is that Sage includes R, and makes it possible to work
with R via the notebook (though some of the integration is rough around
the edges).
Of course, if they just wanted to run R on Solaris, then
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/solaris/ might be a better choice. If
they wanted to use the notebook to share information, collaborate, etc.,
Sage still might be useful.
Jason
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