As a slight aside, Tibco/Spotfire originally planned to provide a capability to load R packages into S-Plus. This always seemed to me to be a hard thing to do, and if my understanding is correct, this proved to be too difficult to do in S-Plus, at least for large packages such as mine. Frank
Terry Therneau-2 wrote > > John, > Spotfire is a menu driven data exploration tool, very popular here > with biologists who found that their previous Excel based approach > doesn't cut it for large data sets. When TIBCO wanted to expand the > tool with further quantitative features they made (I think) a bright > decision to purchase S-plus and integrate it as a back end, rather than > try to write dozens of new modules in house. The "Splus vs R" aspect of > the list responses misses the main point, however. > > Spotfire is designed to let you nose around in a data set, quickly > plotting various aspects, zoom in on subsets (imagine a mouse based > version of the "pinch" metafor used on the iphone), etc. It is a useful > and very well designed tool; one demo was enough to make the sale and > early growth here was explosive. But if you already know R you can do > those graphs already, albeit quite a bit slower. I decided not to > persue proficiency in Spotfire, but that was partly because it's Windows > based and I prefer Unix. Also most of my work is at the > post-exploration phase, and I would have flipped back to straight R for > that anyway. > > Terry Therneau > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@ 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. > ----- Frank Harrell Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/general-question-on-Spotfire-tp4285758p4289575.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
