On Thu, 08 Jul 2004, James Stone wrote: > I have had a look at R. For my purposes (a drop in replacement for > sigmaplot or excel), R is overkill, not to say difficult to learn > with a steep learning curve..
No doubt. R is a bit overkill for almost everything normal people do. [But when you need its features, it's often the only thing that will work.] > Also it outputs in scalable vectors which is nice for Latex > formatting.. Presumably it does postscript or svg output... (R does the former, and you can trivially convert to the later.) > The upstream author seems keen to add features, but I think it needs > to be in the Debian packages to get more exposure. Could be. I'm not that familiar with the package and not really speaking against it... just attempting to clear up a misconception about R. Don Armstrong -- For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. -- Douglas Adams http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu