ed, can i include an edited version of this mail on the open source blog? tks!
scott On Monday 03 January 2005 04:48 pm, Ed Howland wrote: > I'm not really sure what R is. I know it is a free/libr� replacement for > S from the GNUians. But I don't really know what S is other than it > purports to be a stats package for computers. Is it a language, a > library of routines, an application, all of the above or none of the above? > > However, I now know that R has a valid place in the admin's toolbox. It > is especially useful in providing Q&D analysis of log files. Combined > with perl (or sed+awk) you can quickly visualize data from web, mail and > SNMP logs to spot trends or problem zones. I used to do this stuff with > importing the log files into a DB, like MySQL and then running > specialized queries to sort and aggregate information, or use > applications like Webalizer. But R can do this sort of thing out of the > box. It can even merge data from multiple sources (like SQL's join > operator,) to provide more analysis possibilities. 3-5 lines of R might > be simple shortcut to spotting a problem otherwise hidden in numerous > raw data points. > > R has a number of add-in modules via the CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive > Network. - think CPAN for R) some of which handle date and time analysis. > > apt-get install r-base > apt-get install r-cran-* # for CRAN packages. > > The Jan05 issue of Sys Admin mag has a good article on this (only print > version available so far.) http://www.samag.com/ > > Ed > > P.s. Pls don't ask me any questions about this. I only know 2 facts > about statistics : mean = average and there is something called "the > standard deviation" which some spreadsheets have a formula for. -- R. Scott Granneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications: http://www.granneman.com/publications Read the Open Source Blog: http://opensource.weblogsinc.com Join GranneNotes! Information at www.granneman.com "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." ---George Bernard Shaw _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list http://www.cwelug.org/ [email protected] http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug
