Re: [CODE4LIB] R?

2009-09-10 Thread Rich Ackerman
My son uses it at Biogen Idec doing statistical genetics programming. He gave me a demo last weekend. It reminded me of my first programming language, APL :) He loaded data and created very nice visualizations in about five lines of code. Let us know how it works for you! Rich Ackerman Director,

[CODE4LIB] R?

2009-09-10 Thread Glen Newton - NRC/CNRC CISTI/ICIST Research
William == William Denton w...@pobox.com writes: William Are any of you using R? http://www.r-project.org/ I use R for a number of things, including the multidimensional scaling (512--2) I do here: http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2009/07/project-torngat-building-large-scale.html It is fast,

Re: [CODE4LIB] R?

2009-09-10 Thread Cindy Harper
I took some online courses in data mining last year at statistics.com, some of which featured R. I was pleased with it, although I haven't tried to integrate it in any programming project, and I only scratched the surface. I also would highly recommend the courses at statistics.com. Now if I

Re: [CODE4LIB] R?

2009-09-10 Thread Grace Agnew
At Rutgers, we use R for computing basic statistics (frequencies and cross-tabs) on our Eagleton Poll website: http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/eagleton/. Eagleton Polls have been conducted for many years in New Jersey and solicit opinions on sociopolitical issues with a heavy New Jersey focus. .

Re: [CODE4LIB] R?

2009-09-10 Thread Harvey Hahn
Rich Ackerman wrote: William Denton wrote: Are any of you using R? (http://www.r-project.org/) My son uses it at Biogen Idec doing statistical genetics programming. He gave me a demo last weekend. It reminded me of my first programming language, APL :) He loaded data and created