On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> I have been using the R system lately for a variety of analyses, and
> it builds a lot of functionality into subscripting.
I wrote a matrix reimplementation (amatrix) which has a lot
of R-like constructs for indexing. More about that tomorrow.
R is really terrific. On a tangential note, Ross Ihaka (one of the
two original "R" developers) recently wrote a paper about using
Lisp for statistical computing. When I heard that I thought it
would be about combining symbolic and numerical processing
(my own pet project) but instead it was about getting scripts to
run faster (if I understand correctly).
best
Robert