On 5/2/05, Andy Bunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just want to offer my congratulations to the JGR developers as > > the recepient > > of the 2005 Chambers Award. Great job, guys!! > > http://stats.math.uni-augsburg.de/JGR/ > > This feels like the future of R to me. It's simple, powerful, and elegant > just like R. As soon as the binary that works with 2.1 is released I'll use > it exclusively on Linux and Windows. I'm deeply impressed.
I have not tried JGR but regarding your three adjective describing R, R is very powerful but I am not sure I would characterize it as simple and elegant -- complex and practical seem nearer to the mark to me. Some parts of R may be simple and elegant but when I think of simple and elegant languages I think of ones that are organized around a single concept like APL (arrays), Smalltalk (objects), etc. The underlying Lisp roots of R may have a certain simplicity to them and S3 (though not S4) is relatively simple but not R as a whole. On the other hand, the fact that it is practical, powerful and free with a broad set of builtin and addon functionality and has become a de facto standard for statistical research have been sufficient reason for me to do all my computing using R. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
