On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Jeffrey Brown
My experience with R is that, while worlds more powerful than the dominant commercial alternatives (Stata, SAS, it was unintuitive relative to other general-purpose languages like Python. I wonder/speculate whether it was distorted by the pull of its statistical applications away from what would be more natural.
It is an open source implementation of S ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_(programming_language) ) which was developed specifically for statistical applications. I would wonder how much of *that* was shaped by Fortran statistical packages.... -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net