I "third" the positives for R. I also like it quite a bit.
Kostas
Robert Dodier wrote:
> 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