Re: [R] what is R best for; what should one learn in addition to R

2009-04-20 Thread Tom La Bone
What do folks think about the c/gsl/Apophenia combination as one of the other stat packages? http://modelingwithdata.org/ http://apophenia.sourceforge.net/ Tom Greg Snow-2 wrote: > > > I also recommend that people doing statistics know at least the basics of > 3 different stats packages

Re: [R] what is R best for; what should one learn in addition to R

2009-04-20 Thread Greg Snow
What things you should learn in addition to R depends on what types of things you want to do. But here are some of the programs that I recommend people take a look at: gnuplot ggobi Imagemagick LaTeX xfig Make Emacs (or other programming editor) SQL Perl (or other scripting language) Tk (actual

Re: [R] what is R best for; what should one learn in addition to R

2009-04-20 Thread David M Smith
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Stefan Grosse wrote: > I know of people doing optimization stuff which needs a > lot of computational power. They use Matlab since it is easy for them > to use multiple processors (+multiple pc's). R at the moment only uses > one processor and also does not yet (t

Re: [R] what is R best for; what should one learn in addition to R

2009-04-20 Thread Josh Stumpf
You might also try looking in to Python. It has lots of mathematical and computational libraries (numpy and scipy are particularly useful), as well some to deal with concurrency (e.g. Parallel Python), and can interact with R (rpy and rpy2). Josh Stumpf On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Juliet Ha

Re: [R] what is R best for; what should one learn in addition to R

2009-04-20 Thread Stefan Grosse
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:49:29 -0400 Juliet Hannah wrote: JH> I've been working with R for a couple of years, and I've JH> been able to get most of the things done that I needed (sometimes in JH> a roundabout way). A few experienced statisticians told me that JH> R is best for interactive data anal