Comments on: Graphing using R

By: Surf

Surf — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:53:31 +0000

[...] will be doing my best to make it to the first meeting. Any other Sydney-siders who read the post on graphing in R and would like to learn more about R may be interested in coming along too as the group is aimed as [...]

By: Stubborn Mule

Stubborn Mule — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:03:39 +0000

AJ: Here's a quick and dirty comparison of R, Matlab and a few others.

By: Stubborn Mule

Stubborn Mule — Tue, 18 May 2010 23:10:41 +0000

AJ: I once heard someone say that R is a package for statisticians with some mathematical functionality thrown in and Matlab is a package for mathematicians with some statistical functionality thrown in and that’s probably not a bad summary. Of course, the big advantage R has is that it is free (and, unlike so much that is free, it is actually useful). Once you are prepared to spend money on a package (or, perhaps more likely in practice, someone else’s money), I would throw Mathematica into the mix as another package that is vastly more powerful than R. In the meantime, R is great for the penny-pinching enthusiast.

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:03:58 +0000

Thanks mule, good newb intro for hacks like myself. Finally have some spare time to play around with R (soon), its looks pretty cool, although not sure it can compete with Matlab…