On Jan 11, 2012, at 16:28 , Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 12-01-11 10:13 AM, John Smith wrote: >> Dear R users, >> >> I have been using R for 10 years, and I love it very much. But in my daily >> job for drug discovery, some people use Spotfire. I tried Spotfire on >> couple of data sets. It sounds I still need do some data manipulation >> before plot figures. For example, I can not plot figure with data arranged >> in rows (is this true, or I am stupid?). So far I don't feel any benefit >> Spotfire can provide over R. I am just wondering whether it just because I >> am new to Spotfire, or it's true that Spotfire is not a good tool for >> statistician. >> >> Also could anyone give me any suggestion how to learn Spotfire? > > Shouldn't you be asking this question to Spotfire users?
Just to clue in the casual reader, Spotfire embeds a version of S+, which is, er, sort of, like, a predecessor to R, so John is not completely off target. Documents comparing R and S+ should be useful to him. There are books that are "bilingual", such as Venables and Ripley MASS and S Programming, but I also spotted this on TIBCO's own site: http://spotfire.tibco.com/community/blogs/stn/archive/2010/11/04/differences-between-r-and-spotfire-s.aspx Also, there are (claimed to be) facilities to integrate R itself in Spotfire, which could be a rather expedient solution. > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.