[Matrix-SIG] advocacy

[Yoon, Hoon (CICG - NY Program Trading)]

> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I am NOT advocating usage of R at all, but it's nice to see something
> already there. So, we can copy and learn from it.
>   The above site contains R. If you know anything about S or Splus, then
> you would find the free package called R very very close. By going this
> way, the creator of R takes advantage of huge docs available in S and
> Splus.
>   Frankly, I have my own problem with Splus and will only use R for
> regression analysis only; however, if Python ever achieves the state of R
> -> Splus then I would never bother using anything else.
>   It's a good place to find out how statistic code is put together and
> also graphics are put together. R preserved Spluses plot, box, hist, and
> most interestingly identify (check this out). This is also completely
> cross platform on Unix and NT. 
>   In addition, we can probably pick up things like dataframe and higher
> statistics, which Python currently lacks. R is based on Scheme. I am sure
> if they can do it in Scheme, it would be easy job with Python.
> 
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BTW: May be we can just wrap the thing? Plot will be nice to incorporate by
any means.