That stackoverflow question now also mentions a new language Incanter http://incanter.org/
The Incanter website has a link to an interesting paper by Ihaka & Lang (who started R), about the limitations of R and the reasons for developing Incanter based on Clojure/Lisp. http://books.google.com/books?id=8Cf16JkKz30C&pg=PA21#v=onepage&q=&f=false > From: Kip Murray > > This is easy. If you want a statistical language, use R, free and one > of the > best. If you are wealthy or have departmental funds, use S. > > Tracy Harms wrote: > > A new request has been made for comparative comments on J and R. That > > request is posted here: > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1427276/j-programming-language-vs- > r-programming-language > > > > Here's the text of that request: > > > > > > > > Has anyone tried both J programming language form jsoftware and R > > language. I want to learn a statistical language for data analysis. > > Which one do you prefer? Why? > > > > Please consider conditions below, thanks. > > > > * productivity > > * performance > > * community > > * library > > * syntax ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
