Re: [R] R & learning curves. Was RE: R routines vs. MATLAB/SPSS Routines

2007-10-26 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Ravi Varadhan wrote: > Please pardon my non-R related response, but I couldn't resist this! > > I have always felt that the phrase "steep learning curve" is incorrectly > used. If one plots "learning" on Y-axis and effort (or time) on the X-axis, > then the (instantaneous) sl

Re: [R] R & learning curves. Was RE: R routines vs. MATLAB/SPSS Routines

2007-10-26 Thread Chris Evans
Ravi Varadhan sent the following at 26/10/2007 17:29: > Please pardon my non-R related response, but I couldn't resist this! > > I have always felt that the phrase "steep learning curve" is incorrectly > used. If one plots "learning" on Y-axis and effort (or time) on the X-axis, > then the (in

[R] R & learning curves. Was RE: R routines vs. MATLAB/SPSS Routines

2007-10-26 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Please pardon my non-R related response, but I couldn't resist this! I have always felt that the phrase "steep learning curve" is incorrectly used. If one plots "learning" on Y-axis and effort (or time) on the X-axis, then the (instantaneous) slope of the learning curve for R should be shallowe