On Oct 19, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Jeffrey J. Hallman wrote:
<SNIP>
> Think about it. Once you have a basic math package that can handle
> matrix
> programming and various mathematical functions, building the various
> statistical modeling tools on top of them is not that hard. What
> makes S and
> R so much better than SAS is their programmability. Smalltalk is
> like that,
> only better.
>
>
> Jeff Hallman
I would claim that this quote kind of shows that you have no idea
what you are talking about regarding good, debugged and trustworthy
statistical procedures. Why do you think people are actually using R?
I could say "well, given an environment that could interface to C,
building a GUI on top of that is not really that hard", but that
would be incredible naive as well.
Kasper
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