Thanks for your insight, Roger. Actually, my question is not related to R only.
statistical computing is a popular topic recently. However, when I check its meaning on wikipedia/google, I couldn't find it. another reason why I asked is related to myself. I am very interested in this area and maintaining a blog in this topic. however, when asked what 'statistical computing' is, I am not able to give a well-verbalized answer. On 3/2/07, Bos, Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This means it comes with substantial statistical routines built-in. You > could just as well use VBA or Java for your programming language, but > with those you would have to write pretty much any stat routine you > need. With R, since it is a 'statistical computing' language, you know > that most of what you need has already been programmed, tested(?), and > is ready to use. > > I have seen you on this list for a while. You already know all this. I > am not sure why you are asking this question. > > Roger > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wensui Liu > Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 9:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [R] [friday topic]: what exactly is statistical computing > > Dear List, > on www.r-project.org, the title says 'The R Project for Statistical > Computing'. > > but what exactly is the definition of statistical computing? > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. > > ********************************************************************** * > This message is for the named person's use only. It may > contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged > information. No right to confidential or privileged treatment > of this message is waived or lost by any error in > transmission. If you have received this message in error, > please immediately notify the sender by e-mail, > delete the message and all copies from your system and destroy > any hard copies. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, > disclose, distribute, print or copy any part of this message > if you are not the intended recipient. > ********************************************************************** > -- WenSui Liu A lousy statistician who happens to know a little programming (http://spaces.msn.com/statcompute/blog) ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
