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>> R, SSPS, Matlab... I'd immediately throw out "competitors" that cost hundreds of dollars to use. https://www.mathworks.com/pricing-licensing.html https://w

>> R, SSPS, Matlab... I'd immediately throw out "competitors" that cost hundreds of dollars to use. https://www.mathworks.com/pricing-licensing.html https://www.mathworks.com/pricing-licensing.html Academic pricing is $275/yr and normal is almost a thousand a year. Then you pay for modules on top.

ImaCake 3y ago
Yes, and this is why R has become so dominant in the data and statistics spaces. R is free, and has gained so much momentum that it often has packages that no other language has. Yesterday I found out that there was just no way to easily reproduce mgcv::gam in python. There are loads of similar examples. As someone who likes both R and Python, and had the misfortune to learn Stata; I am very glad to see R winning over these expensive dinosaurs. Maybe one day it will even displace matlab!
- a_bonobo 3y ago
  R even has packages to read in NanoSIMS data! [1] There are perhaps a hundred NanoSIMS machines in the world as they're extremely expensive [2]. Yet we have an R package on CRAN to analyse their data! [1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lans2r/vignettes/lans2r.html https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lans2r/vignettes/lan... [2] This 2017 reviews says there are 42 machines: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1398172 https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1398172