Thanks, found some help on the R help forum, though now I'm buried in resources and haven't gotten to square 1 with understanding the syntax. What I really want is to communicate my own purposes, how to watch the masterful artwork of nature evolve by cross connecting real events and real dynamics... What the skillful use of the right tools shows is that *every* event is emergent as an original development, not accident, of its time!
Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 680 Ft. Washington Ave NY NY 10040 tel: 212-795-4844 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] explorations: www.synapse9.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels > Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 11:22 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Seaside (Smalltalk web development framework) > > > Phil Henshaw wrote: > > > I can only > > limp along with my live systems data analysis using home made lisp > > routines on a graphics platform because of the standard > grid model of > > data that seems to be used elsewhere? > [..] > > marvelous! but now I've got all sorts of stuff to transfer to a > > system I don't understand... know any tutors in NY? > If you like Lisp, you'll find R natural. Witness lambda > expressions > and lexical scope: > > test <- function (l) { > sum(sapply (l, function (x) { x + l })) > } > > > test (c(1,2,3,4)) > [1] 80 > > It's also has consed lists (called pair lists), hash tables (called > environments), etc. > > There are tutorials of various sorts on the R website. > > R is a great package. It has a plug-in interface for native > code, and > hundreds of contributed packages. > Folks that are mainly interested in presentation graphics or > visualization might not find it is what they want as that's not it's > greatest strength. It's greatest strength is that it is good > full-fledged dynamially typed programming language with about every > statistical test ever conceived. But visualization is improving. > There's a very usable OpenGL package that works fine, for > example. Also > some will gripe that it is slow. It's true there is no > compiler for R, > yet, but given the native code plug-in interface and the fact > that most > operations are vectorized with intensive numerics done in R's native > code libraries, I think that's a pretty bogus complaint. > > Marcus > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
