Re: [vox-tech] [getting OT] R statistics language (and Beamer)
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Norm Matloff wrote: [snip] On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:31:04PM -0700, Norm Matloff wrote: R/S+ is multiplatform (the various Unixes, Windows, Macs). So, anyone want to do a talk on this language at LUGOD some time!? :) Seems like this question was asked a few months ago. :-) I might volunteer at some future time. Meanwhile, as I said, there is my mini-tutorial, at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/r.html Thank you for the tutorial. From scanning through the tutorial, it looks like R does things for which I use MATLAB. What are the strengths and weaknesses of R and MATLAB in comparison to each other besides the price? =) By the way, an update on the Prosper/Beamer (packages for using LaTeX to make slide presentations) discussion of last week: I checked it out, and I must say that Beamer is outstanding, a substantial improvement in functionality over Prosper. It needed a bit more work to install than stated in the instructions, and it does seem that the price paid for that extra functionality is a steeper learning curve. I intend to write up a mini-tutorial on Beamer when I get time, maybe next week. Please let us (or at least me) know when you do! -Mark -- Mark K. Kim AIM: markus kimius Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=13046 PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE PGP key available on the homepage ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] [getting OT] R statistics language (and Beamer)
Mark K. Kim wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Norm Matloff wrote: [snip] On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:31:04PM -0700, Norm Matloff wrote: R/S+ is multiplatform (the various Unixes, Windows, Macs). So, anyone want to do a talk on this language at LUGOD some time!? :) Seems like this question was asked a few months ago. :-) I might volunteer at some future time. Meanwhile, as I said, there is my mini-tutorial, at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/r.html Thank you for the tutorial. From scanning through the tutorial, it looks like R does things for which I use MATLAB. What are the strengths and weaknesses of R and MATLAB in comparison to each other besides the price? =) I honestly haven't given R a spin yet, although I've known about it for a long time. But if you are interested in a free alternative to Matlab, you should look at Octave (www.octave.org). I use it for 90% of my numerical work lately. For many simple things it is 100% matlab compatible. Jonathan ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] [getting OT] R statistics language (and Beamer)
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:56:13PM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Norm Matloff wrote: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/r.html From scanning through the tutorial, it looks like R does things for which I use MATLAB. What are the strengths and weaknesses of R and MATLAB in comparison to each other besides the price? I've been using R extensively with Bioconductor (bioinformatics libraries for R). Never used MATLAB, but I work with several statisticians and mathematicians who are experts at both, and they all use R for any kind of statistical analysis. And then there is the price =) -David ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
