Re: [R] Numerical Methods Course

2010-08-10 Thread Matt Shotwell
TGS, Given that you have to pay an outrageous $155.86 for that book, it seems reasonable to look for a free environment for numerical computing (like R!). If your instructor says that such a variety of programming languages would work, you could probably make a good argument to use R. But why not

[R] Numerical Methods Course

2010-08-10 Thread TGS
I want to take this numerical methods course where the text is http://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Methods-J-Douglas-Faires/dp/0534407617 . The instructor recommends MATLAB, but states Fortran, C, Mathematica, or Maple will also do the job. Will R do the job as well? If not, where do you think it