On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Philippe Grosjean wrote: > Hello, > > I just read this paper, and was surprised by: > > "This study performs a comparison of the latest versions of nine > different statistical software packages using StRD. These packages are > SAS (9.1), SPSS (12.0), Excel (2003), Minitab (14.0), Stata (8.1), Splus > (6.2), R (1.9.1), JMP (5.0), and StatCrunch (3.0)." > > For a paper published in 2007, and submitted in April 2005, this is > still surprising. If I my calculation is correct, in 2004, they would > have used R 2.2.x, or something,... not 1.9.1?
No -- there is a new x.y.0 twice per year. Checking the r-announce archives shows that 2.0.0 came out in October 2004 and 1.9.1 in June 2004. Describing 1.9.1 as "the latest version" was inaccurate, but it may well have been a more recent version than for most of the other packages they examined. -thomas Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.