I don't think it is so much that the R routines work faster/more efficiently/more accurately but that the user works faster/more efficiently/ more accurately.
Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") Matthew Dubins wrote: >Hi all, > >I've become quite enamored of R lately, and have decided to try to teach >some of its basics (reading in data, manipulation and classical stats >analyses) to my fellow grad students at the University of Toronto. I >sent out a mass email and have already received some positive >responses. One student, however, wanted to know what differentiates the >routines that R uses, from those that MATLAB and SPSS use. In other >words, in what respects do R routines work faster/more efficiently/more >accurately than those of MATLAB/SPSS. > >I thank you in advance for any answer you can give me (or rather, the >inquiring student). > >Cheers, >Matthew Dubins > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
