On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:00:13 -0700 (PDT), Paul Miller <pjmiller...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I was just wondering if anyone could give me some advice about the wisdom or >folly of trying to use both [R and S-Plus]. I suspect that trying to use both will give you heartburn. When I switched from S-Plus to R, the most significant differences (for my purposes) were in graphics. The languages differ in the way they approach graphics, and even where the languages appear the same, interpretation of some parameters (such as cex) can be different. Also, the way data are stored differs considerably. Because S-Plus stores data on disk, while R keeps data in memory, S-Plus can have an edge when analyzing huge data sets. (That reflects my understanding of the situation about 5 or 6 yr ago.) I have gone back to old projects and tried to execute my S-Plus code in R. In general, the code needed minor to major massaging to make that happen, especially when the output was carefully annotated graphs. I would recommend that you concentrate on R, where much active development is taking place. Support from this newsgroup is better than support from most commercial vendors, though perhaps not always as sweet-natured. As noted by others, Revolution R is available with commercial support, if you need it. ______________________________________________ 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.
