Statistical Programming With R 52
An anonymous reader writes "This series introduces you to R, a rich statistical environment, released as free software. It includes a programming language, an interactive shell, and extensive graphing capability. What's more, R comes with a spectacular collection of functions for mathematical and statistical manipulations -- with still more capabilities available in optional packages."
Good-oh... (Score:3, Interesting)
I've heard good things about R, but have never really got to grips with it (although I know it has been around for a while), so any kind of primer is more than welcome as far as I'm concerned.
Graphing, hah! (Score:5, Interesting)
</cranky old man>
What's a Robust Replacement for Excel??? . . . (Score:2, Interesting)
Comparison to octave? (Score:3, Interesting)
Does anyone have any insight on how this differs from octave [octave.org]?
This is the first I've heard of R, but I've tried using octave a few times. It seems to be a sort of enhanced gnuplot. I was thinking about using it for a project I'm working on, though I may just stick with good 'ol C for performance.
Do any of these projects work well with sparse matricies? I'm interested in using them to run a pagerank [wikipedia.org]-like computation, but not if they use n^2 memory.
-jim