On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:06 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is anyone working on improving the Sage -> R integration? > > Yes. There are a number of tickets with some progress on them. > >> >> Making Sage good for statistics, would probably do far more to increase the >> user >> base of Sage than improving graph theory, algebra or number theory. My logic >> for >> that is that statistics is used by a huge range of professions, whereas >> number >> theory is really only if interest to mathematicians. > > This has been discussed quite a bit on this list, and we agree. > >> I do subscribe to the R mailing list - I needed to subscribe to get some help >> over a Solaris issue, and have remained a subscriber, though I rarely read >> the >> messages. The mailing list is *very* active. R certainly has a huge user >> base. I >> subscribed on the 12th Feb this year, and now have 10,703 messages! That's >> about >> 100 per day! > > Yes! It's amazing. That's why I get the digest :)
Wow, that's a lot of traffic. I just looked and there were "only" about 7000 messages on the Sage lists on that time... William > > This is as good a time as any to mention that John Verzani invited me > to give a talk at useR2010! (the exclamation point is part of the > title, so no Nathann here), and I'm going! This is at > http://www.user2010.org/program.html#Mi and > http://www.user2010.org/abstracts/Crisman.pdf > . Feel free to let me know all of the best ways to use them > *together* (I already have lots of examples of using R in the > notebook, including the great lattice plotting packages which do now > work in the notebook). > > - kcrisman > > -- > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
