On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Norm Matloff wrote: [snip] > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:31:04PM -0700, Norm Matloff wrote: > > > > R/S+ is multiplatform (the various Unixes, Windows, Macs). > > > So, anyone want to do a talk on this language at LUGOD some time!? :) > > Seems like this question was asked a few months ago. :-) > > I might volunteer at some future time. Meanwhile, as I said, there is > my mini-tutorial, at > > http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/r.html
Thank you for the tutorial. From scanning through the tutorial, it looks like R does things for which I use MATLAB. What are the strengths and weaknesses of R and MATLAB in comparison to each other besides the price? =) > By the way, an update on the Prosper/Beamer (packages for using LaTeX to > make slide presentations) discussion of last week: I checked it out, and > I must say that Beamer is outstanding, a substantial improvement in > functionality over Prosper. It needed a bit more work to install than > stated in the instructions, and it does seem that the price paid for > that extra functionality is a steeper learning curve. I intend to write > up a mini-tutorial on Beamer when I get time, maybe next week. Please let us (or at least me) know when you do! -Mark -- Mark K. Kim AIM: markus kimius Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=13046 PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE PGP key available on the homepage _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
