TGS, Given that you have to pay an outrageous $155.86 for that book, it seems reasonable to look for a free environment for numerical computing (like R!). If your instructor says that such a variety of programming languages would work, you could probably make a good argument to use R. But why not just ask your instructor?
If your instructor insists on MATLAB, you could also consider using GNU Octave, a free MATLAB clone. -Matt On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 10:55 -0400, TGS wrote: > I want to take this numerical methods course where the text is > http://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Methods-J-Douglas-Faires/dp/0534407617 . The > instructor recommends MATLAB, but states Fortran, C, Mathematica, or Maple > will also do the job. > > Will R do the job as well? > > If not, where do you think it will be lacking in the context of this > book/course. > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Matthew S. Shotwell Graduate Student Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Medical University of South Carolina ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
