Ben Bolker <bolker <at> ufl.edu> writes: > > vQ > > If one can get the R routines to work, I think they have some > advantages over NAG and Numerical Recipes routines: > > * source code is freely redistributable > * I can't really claim expertise, but I believe there > has been some controversy (see the wikipedia page on NR, > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_Recipes ) > > The big advantage of NR is not in the algorithms, but > in the explanations in the book ... > > (The wikipedia page also refers to the Gnu Scientific Library, > which might be another set of options.) > > Ben Bolker > > ______________________________________________
PS (replying to myself) there's an eloquent criticism of NR's licensing policies at http://www.astro.umd.edu/~bjw/software/boycottnr.html which articulates a lot of my complaints better than I could Ben ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
