Hi, IMHO, "- Everything you want to do is a command line, minimal GUI", this should be considered a "Pro". The commandline is much more powerful than a GUI.
Cheers, John Monica Pisica wrote: > > Charles, > > I don't consider packages as up-grades, i consider them as enhancements ..... > When a new R version is in place you cannot up-grade your old R version, you > have to do a new installation and re-load all the packages you used to have > and delete / un-install the old version.... of course you can customize how > you do this but it is not an up-grade per se as you would go for example from > "softname" v.3 to "softname" v.4 using an up-grad einstead of a full > installation version. New versions of R are always full versions ..... while > this does not bother me a bit since now i have a way of installing everything > with very little hassle, it may confuse and even frustrate others less > dedicated to using R. So - in my opinion - for a novice in R this might be a > "minus". > > Monica> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; r-help@r-project.org> > Subject: RE: [R] Pros and Cons of R> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 12:24:49 -0400> > > What do you mean, "there are no up-grades?" There are 1,401 ancillary> > packages - all free. That sounds like upgrades to me.> > Of course there is > no *perfect* beginner's book, but Peter Dalgaard's> Introductory Statistics > with R (Paperback), Springer, 3d printing edition> (January 9, 2004) is > pretty close. If you don't know much statistics, it> will teach you > statistics while teaching you R. If you already know> statistics, it will > demonstrate how to do familiar things using R.> > > Charles Annis, P.E.> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: 561-352-9699> eFax: 614-455-3265> > http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com> > > -----Original Message-----> From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On> Behalf Of Monica Pisica> > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:00 ! PM> To: r-help@r-project.org> Subject: [R] Pros and Cons of R> > > Hi,> > I am doing a very informal presentation for my office about R capabilities> to deal with and analyze spatial data, display data and maps, and> connections with GIS. I've used in my presentation info from the CRAN, the> spatial Task view, and the more striking graphics examples from> http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/thumbs.php and NCEAS> http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/scicomp/GISSeminar/UseCases/MapProdWithRGraphics/O> neMapProdWithRGraphics.html together with examples of my own work.> > I am finishing with pros and cons about R and I am wondering if you can come> up with other examples, or comments. Here they are:> > Pros:> > - R is a programming environment well suited for statistical analysis.> - R is open source and cross platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux).> - Fortran, C (C++), and Python wrappers are in place.> - Deals well with spatial data, has a robust graphical interface and has an> active user g! roup list / forum.> - External packages for R are almost daily! increasing, most of them based on> published up-to-date books and peer-reviewed articles.> - R related books - quite a few ..> > Cons:> > - R has a very steep learning curve.> - There is no perfect "beginner" book.> - Experience with other programming languages is a plus / minus.> - You can save scripts, but not *.exe.> - It is updated several times a year (good) but there are no up-grades.> - It seems that it is hard to install correctly under Linux.> - Everything you want to do is a command line, minimal GUI.> - Memory management problems (depends on your OS), especially when> displaying big images at high resolution or working with huge matrices> (hundreds of Mb).> > Also i am wondering if R works under 64 bit computers and if it takes> advantage of it.> > Thanks,> > Monica> > _________________________________________________________________> > > Refresh_family_safety_052008> ______________________________________________> 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.> > _________________________________________________________________ > Change the world with e-mail. Join the im Initiative from Microsoft. > > ld > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
