Re: [R] Comparison between R and MATLAB

2008-06-20 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Kevin J. Thompson wrote: > hi, > > my 0.2$ the rpy python module is excellent, in addition to those Wacek > mentioned. > > another free alternative, particularly for graphics is scilab: > http://www.scilab.org/ > > for scilab there is the rscilab module, so that we are with r agai

Re: [R] Comparison between R and MATLAB

2008-06-20 Thread Kevin J. Thompson
une 20, 2008 2:47 pm Subject: Re: [R] Comparison between R and MATLAB > for many tasks, gnu octave (a 'matlab clone', no offense to gnu folks > intended) is quite sufficient, and *free* (+ open source). you > can run > some of matlab code in octave. > > y

Re: [R] Comparison between R and MATLAB

2008-06-20 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
for many tasks, gnu octave (a 'matlab clone', no offense to gnu folks intended) is quite sufficient, and *free* (+ open source). you can run some of matlab code in octave. you should also check if sage (http://www.sagemath.org/) can do the job for you, it's stuffed with all sorts of maths utiliti

Re: [R] Comparison between R and MATLAB

2008-06-20 Thread Clint Bowman
The easy way around that is to create an account, "Mathworks", with a common group that all who will use MatLab belong, then su - Mathworks should satisfy the license manager. Clint BowmanINTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Air Dispersion Modeler INTERNET: [EMAIL P

Re: [R] Comparison between R and MATLAB

2008-06-20 Thread Earl F. Glynn
"Shubha Vishwanath Karanth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Can I get a comparison between R and MATLAB? How is R efficient than MATLAB? Or what are the weaknesses of R compared to MATLAB? Don't forget to compare licenses and cost. Matlab's rigid and unreasonable l

Re: [R] Comparison between R and MATLAB

2008-06-19 Thread Spencer Graves
The short answer on comparing R and Matlab is that it depends on your benchmark and which church you happen to frequent. Some people swear that Matlab is superior, but I haven't seen the evidence for that. The benchmarks that come closer to being transparent are more equivocal, as far as

Re: [R] Comparison between R and MATLAB

2008-06-19 Thread stephen sefick
This discussion has already occurred- to my knowledge at least once. I would suggest searching the archived list, and see what you get. If you still have questions after you have a look then fire a couple of specifics, but speaking for myself I don't know anything about matlab only S (and even t

[R] Comparison between R and MATLAB

2008-06-19 Thread Shubha Vishwanath Karanth
Hi R, Can I get a comparison between R and MATLAB? How is R efficient than MATLAB? Or what are the weaknesses of R compared to MATLAB? Thank you very much for your help, Shubha Shubha Karanth | Amba Research Ph +91 80 3980 8031 | Mob +91 94 4886 4510 Bangalore * Colombo * London *