Re: [R] software comparison

2007-04-21 Thread Owe Jessen
Ben Bolker schrieb: Philippe Grosjean phgrosjean at sciviews.org writes: Hello, For a paper published in 2007, and submitted in April 2005, this is still surprising. If I my calculation is correct, in 2004, they would have used R 2.2.x, or something,... not 1.9.1? Anyway, does

Re: [R] software comparison

2007-04-16 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Hello, I just read this paper, and was surprised by: This study performs a comparison of the latest versions of nine different statistical software packages using StRD. These packages are SAS (9.1), SPSS (12.0), Excel (2003), Minitab (14.0), Stata (8.1), Splus (6.2), R (1.9.1), JMP (5.0), and

Re: [R] software comparison

2007-04-16 Thread Ben Bolker
Philippe Grosjean phgrosjean at sciviews.org writes: Hello, For a paper published in 2007, and submitted in April 2005, this is still surprising. If I my calculation is correct, in 2004, they would have used R 2.2.x, or something,... not 1.9.1? Anyway, does someone know if there is a

Re: [R] software comparison

2007-04-16 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Philippe Grosjean wrote: Hello, I just read this paper, and was surprised by: This study performs a comparison of the latest versions of nine different statistical software packages using StRD. These packages are SAS (9.1), SPSS (12.0), Excel (2003), Minitab (14.0),

Re: [R] software comparison

2007-04-16 Thread Ben Bolker
Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu writes: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Philippe Grosjean wrote: Hello, [snip] No -- there is a new x.y.0 twice per year. Checking the r-announce archives shows that 2.0.0 came out in October 2004 and 1.9.1 in June 2004. Describing 1.9.1 as the

[R] software comparison

2007-04-15 Thread Robert McFadden
Dear R Users, May be you are interested in an article that compares 9 statistical softwares (including R). Any comments are appreciate. Article: Keeling, Kellie B.; Pavur, Robert J.A comparative study of the reliability of nine statistical software packages Computational Statistics and Data