Hi Ted, here is something rather imprecise. I have both xgobi and ggobi on my computer. Up to now, I used almost always xgobi, because it contains the features that I need. Some of these are not in ggobi (e.g. mean/sd and med/mad standardization). ggobi has also some instabilties (no details now, because it's some time ago that I encountered them). In general, ggobi looks more user friedly, is supposed to communicate better with R and does also some standardization and other things which are not in xgobi. So my advice is to take them both.
Best, Christian On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm at the point where I'd normally install xgobi (which I've > used and found very useful), but there is the alternative of > ggobi (now at version 0.9). > > Would anyone with experience of both care to indicate the > merits of either relative to the other? > > The other thing I can't make out too clearly from the ggobu > website is quite what's involved in choosing between the > various options. I gather you have to install ggobi itself > (presumably the "standalone"), and then Rggobi; but there are > options for ggobi: > > # stand-alone, > # stand-alone with XML support, > # stand-alone and embeddable ggobi library, > (this implies an embeddable ggobi library is created.) > # stand-alone and embeddable ggobi library with XML support, > # R interface (allowing ggobi to be controlled from R) > # Python interface (allowing ggobi to be controlled from Python) > # Perl interface (allowing ggobi to be controlled from Perl) > > I'm not a Perl fan, so won't be strongly tempted by that option. > I might find a use for Python, however, and clearly I need the > R interface. I'm more at a loss about the first four: > > # With/without XML support, with/without embeddable ggobi library > > Is there likely to be much advantage, for normal use, in XML? > Are there serious implications in the footprint with this option? > [I'm not generously endowed with RAM here, and would like to keep > as much as possible for real things, i.e. analysing data] > > What are the merits of the embeddable library? > > With thanks, > Ted. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 > Date: 18-Sep-03 Time: 21:18:51 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > -- *********************************************************************** Christian Hennig Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum (LEO), CH-8092 Zuerich (currently) and Fachbereich Mathematik-SPST/ZMS, Universitaet Hamburg [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://stat.ethz.ch/~hennig/ [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/hennig/ ####################################################################### ich empfehle www.boag-online.de ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
