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I think the point is to learn statistics using an easier language than R, ugly figures be damned.
by araneae 16y ago
I think the point is to learn statistics using an easier language than R, ugly figures be damned.
- rch 16y agoWell, the R syntax is more intuitive than statistics itself. Then again, what isn't? Really though- rpy2 is a nice enough interface to R, and things like MCMCPack make R worth the effort.
- phren0logy 16y agoI see this as a real issue. R is useful but sorta crappy as languages go. I have hopes for Incanter [http://incanter.org/ http://incanter.org/] (a clojure-based stats environment), but it looks stalled out vs dead in the water. Even still, for basic stats it's pretty viable. I would love to see a stats environment based on a sane, full-featured language that was ready to take advantage of multiple cores and GPU computing. Clojure has all the building blocks, but it's not built yet.
- araneae 16y agoI have to confess that whenever I do any statistics (which isn't much, these days) I struggle with R for a bit and then say "screw it" and use MatLab.
- pama 16y agoQuick R, helped several of my friends try R: http://www.statmethods.net/ http://www.statmethods.net/ Once you're hooked, go to the R inferno: http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf
- JoshCole 16y agoI had been planning to work on Incanter over the summer as part of Google Summer of Code, but things didn't pan out. The organization promoting the project wasn't accepted as a mentoring organization. Now I have to find another internship.
- graywh 16y agoWhat about R do you think makes it hard?