Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Microsoft and a version of R

2015-06-27 Thread Thomas HARDING
On 27/06/2015 01:24, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: So MS excel is looking to imitate gnumeric which already consults > with R project to get accurate statistics? Why would they need to buy > company to do this? Or did I miss something? BOTH Microsoft AND Tibco twisted something (and here Tibco

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Microsoft and a version of R

2015-06-26 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: So MS excel is looking to imitate gnumeric which already consults with R project to get accurate statistics? Why would they need to buy company to do this? Or did I miss something? In order to legally distribute a non-free, user-subjugating program compatible with

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Microsoft and a version of R

2015-06-26 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
El 25 de junio de 2015 14:27:09 GMT+01:00, Thomas HARDING escribió: >On 24/06/2015 22:37, Algot Runeman wrote: >> I stumbled across this post: >> http://spotfire.tibco.com/blog/?p=29291 >> and felt compelled to write a comment. >> >> "It sounds as if Microsoft should just buy TIBCO. The result

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Microsoft and a version of R

2015-06-26 Thread aurelien
"jimgarrett...@gmail.com" writes: > I'm a statistician and I use R is my primary tool. It's ironic that R > is a Free implementation of the S language created at Bell Labs. S was > enhanced into S-Plus, which was bought by Tibco. Is anyone using > S-Plus these days? I draw two conclusions from th

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Microsoft and a version of R

2015-06-26 Thread jimgarrett...@gmail.com
I'm a statistician and I use R is my primary tool. It's ironic that R is a Free implementation of the S language created at Bell Labs. S was enhanced into S-Plus, which was bought by Tibco. Is anyone using S-Plus these days? I draw two conclusions from this. First, that R eclipsed S-Plus shows t

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Microsoft and a version of R

2015-06-25 Thread Thomas HARDING
On 24/06/2015 22:37, Algot Runeman wrote: I stumbled across this post: http://spotfire.tibco.com/blog/?p=29291 and felt compelled to write a comment. "It sounds as if Microsoft should just buy TIBCO. The result won't be R, perhaps. R is important because it is not buried cryptically in commerc

[libreplanet-discuss] Microsoft and a version of R

2015-06-25 Thread Algot Runeman
I stumbled across this post: http://spotfire.tibco.com/blog/?p=29291 and felt compelled to write a comment. "It sounds as if Microsoft should just buy TIBCO. The result won't be R, perhaps. R is important because it is not buried cryptically in commercial products, R is important because it is