on Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:38:25PM -0700, Norm Matloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:00:03PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:45:00 -0700 > > From: Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [vox-tech] [getting OT] R statistics language > > > 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
Nice... I'm on the lookout for good R guides. Trying to put my finger
on what makes it hard to grok.
A licensing rant, though. You write:
[R is] a public-domain implementation of the widely-regarded S
statistical language.
It is *not* public domain. It's copyrighted (per my Debian distro's
r-base copyright file), and contains the following copyright notices:
Copyright (c) 1984 to 1992 Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Copyright 1999 by (URW)++ Design & Development
Copyright (C), 1998 Thomas Baier
Copyright (C), 1998-2000, Thomas Baier, R Core Development Team
Copyright (C) 1998 John W. Emerson
Copyright (C) various dates W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley
Copyright (c) 1989, 1992 by AT&T.
Copyright (C) 1998 W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley
Copyright (C) 1997-1999 Adrian Trapletti
Copyright (C) 1999 Martyn Plummer
Copyright (c) 1993 Alan Richardson
Copyright (C) 1998-1999 Lyndon Drake
Copyright (C) 1997, 1999 Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura.
There is one reference to "public domain" in a Knuth Marsienne
implmentation, though it's a conditioned PD grant (e.g.:
self-contradictory).
What R is, properly, is a FSF Free Software / OSI Open Source
project released under (mostly) the GNU GPL.
> It's reasonably good now, but I probably will be adding to it during the
> next couple of weeks, as I have a research project which requires me to
> use some features I haven't used before.
One of my confusions is that I'm used to languages (SAS, awk, Perl,
Python) which largely act rowwise on data. R can act on a row, a
column, on a frame, or on a more complex object, which hurts my brain.
A good intro to using R in emacs / xemacs would be useful as I think R
would benefit by the IDE environment emacsen make possible.
Peace.
--
Karsten M. Self <[email protected]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
Of course Ms DiDio, a friend and former co-worker of Darl McBride's, is
deeply involved in SCO's Microsoft financed attack against Linux, so any
paper on Linux she endorses should be disregarded out of hand.
- Andrew Grygus
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