[vox-tech] [getting OT] R statistics language (and Beamer)

[Jonathan Stickel]

Mark K. Kim wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Norm Matloff wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>>On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:31:04PM -0700, Norm Matloff wrote:
>>
>>>>R/S+ is multiplatform (the various Unixes, Windows, Macs).
>>
>>>So, anyone want to do a talk on this language at LUGOD some time!? :)
>>
>>Seems like this question was asked a few months ago. :-)
>>
>>I might volunteer at some future time.  Meanwhile, as I said, there is
>>my mini-tutorial, at
>>
>>   http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/r.html
> 
> 
> Thank you for the tutorial.  From scanning through the tutorial, it looks
> like R does things for which I use MATLAB.  What are the strengths and
> weaknesses of R and MATLAB in comparison to each other besides the price?
> =)
> 
> 

I honestly haven't given R a spin yet, although I've known about it for 
a long time.  But if you are interested in a free alternative to Matlab, 
you should look at Octave (www.octave.org).  I use it for 90% of my 
numerical work lately.  For many simple things it is 100% matlab compatible.

Jonathan