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Subject: Re: Beginner's choice: R or MatLab ?
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:57:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: F. James Rohlf <ro...@life.bio.sunysb.edu>
Reply-To: ro...@life.bio.sunysb.edu
To: Morphmet <morphmet@morphometrics.org>
Personally, I use matlab almost every day to run quick tests of ideas
and check to computations (rather than to create finished programs to
share). Because most everything I do involves matrices I find it very
convenient. R is quite impressive but I prefer matlab. I tried the free
octave a couple of years ago but it needed much more work. I want to use
software I can trust so that I know that the bugs will only be my own. I
don't mind enabling some programmers to make a living wage.
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From: morphmet
To: Morphmet
ReplyTo: Morphmet
Subject: Beginner's choice: R or MatLab ?
Sent: Mar 30, 2009 9:49 AM
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Subject: Beginner's choice: R or MatLab ?
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:55:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dany Adams <dany.ad...@tufts.edu>
To: <morphmet@morphometrics.org>
I have been chosen to become the morphometrics "expert" in my lab. I am
already the statistics person (by no means an expert, though). I was
looking into learning R as a way to do both more effectively. It seems
to be the future of statistics, plus I have an expert in my family.
However, the other PI in my lab is interested in having me learn MatLab,
since [1] we already use it for other things, [2] it is site licensed at
my University, [3] the company, and therefore technical help, is nearby,
[4] and he feels it is intuitive in a way that will help me teach others.
Is there a morphometrics reason to choose one over the other ? I am
assuming that whatever peripherals I will need to buy are the same, so
the question is about quality, ease of use, learning curve, and anything
else that would be of use to know.
Thank you all very much.
Dany Adams
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Tufts University
Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology
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