> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Henry E Schaffer > The best known open source stat package is R. > http://www.r-project.org/ > "R is a free software environment for statistical computing and > graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, > ..." > I'm not sure about it running on zLinux - but it very well may, > although a web search doesn't show any descriptions of doing it.
It does (I use it often), but you have to build it from the source RPM. R feels a lot like APL (without the bizarre character set). It's fantastic for interactive exploration of data, but it's data manipulation functions aren't as well organized as the ones in SAS. You can do pretty much anything with R, but there are things that seem harder than they should be. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
