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But if you look at Emacs-as-IDE route taken by EDE/CEDET suite, it's a kludgy beast... (I don't know how large the EDE/CEDET user community is, but most people I know forsake it in…

I thought the plan was to rebase in Guile Scheme?

Can you get it through a host like sourceforge/github, or through a package manager like macports/homebrew? I can only find a zipped file on the web...

The original statement could be interpreted in this way: the former operation 'returns a function' and in the latter, it 'bind[s] [...] arguments' - suggesting a form of destructiv…

I wouldn't discourage them uniquivocally - for instance, 'subset' is an idiom often used in the context of data/relational tables. That matters a little bit (enough to pay a little…

I couldn't tell from the first chapter, but are there a lot of equations? If so, would be a big plus for me.

How is this better than attaching data to objects and operating on them with its methods? (Seriously, I would like to know). The syntax does not look all that different and with cl…

With the Python community looking forward to Python 3 and PyPy, NumPy+Scipy+Matplotlib seems to be be focused on making further developments in Python 2 (and for some time to come,…

That sounds great -- I only recently learned of pandas (I normally don't use much of NumPy/SciPy), but I will keep an eye out on this.

I entirely agree though my personal preference is for lattice over ggplot as it is faster and more flexible at the present time (the "limitations" of ggplot reflect the preference …

can use virtualbox+windows. not ideal, but one way.

Agreed -- the author of the post is talking about writing or debugging algorithms; coding is the stuff you need your computer for.

The R community seems to be growing rapidly, with many favorable reviews of the language/system. For instance -- Forbes Magazine, Names You Need to Know in 2011: R Data Analysis So…

When I tried to use easy_install with the EPD it tried to take me to their repository, for which we don't have appropriate permissions? So I sucked it up and installed some from .d…

Agreed. I use Python for heavy shell-scripting and text-processing (though R surprisingly does have respectable facilities for all but the most overwhelming of these tasks) and R f…

I see - yes, most of the masters whose .emacs.d file I've had the privilege to look have been from the old guard.

Sorry, meant "from my limited observation it seems that everyone"... but what you suggest makes sense.

I wonder why everyone writes out the function invocations to add each directory they're adding, rather than doing something like (labels ((add-path (p) (add-to-list 'load-path (pat…

When do you decide to use some directory like ~/emacs or ~/elisp or whatever instead of your ~/.emacs.d/ directory for your packages? A lot of emacs sites say to use ~/.emacs.d, bu…

Google apparently runs R on desktops ( http://dataspora.com/blog/predictive-analytics-using-r/ ) and ports it to Python or C++ once their ideas are tested (for production code). Ha…

You can check out the lattice, ggplot2, scatterplot3d and rgl libraries to see how R handles multivariate data - R is especially well suited for analyzing panel (longitudinal) data…

S-PLUS objects reside on the hard drive whereas R's are stored entirely in memory. So R is faster for smaller computations but runs against limitations when the data sets are large…