On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Chibisi Chima-Okereke <chibco at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been using another free mathematical package called "R" for a couple
> of years, which has very good matrix operation speed (about the same as
> matlab), though it doesn't have the symbolic capabilities that maxima has. I
> am new to maxima and was wandering if anyone who as used both knows which is
> quicker at matrix manipulations.
It's more convenient to work with numerical matrices in R than in Maxima.
At a job I used to have, I used R a lot for statistical number
crunching. R rocks.
Robert Dodier