A big list of the things R can do
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A big list of the things R can do
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Re: A big list of the things R can do
#2This is rather a short list hiding open alternatives to Revo works; the better idea is to read CRAN task views http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/
Re: A big list of the things R can do
#3This is rather a short list hiding open alternatives to Revo works; the better idea is to read CRAN task views http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/
Yes, it is. David Smith is a great blogger (and wrote the original ESS and a first draft of an Introduction to R), but he's somewhat hamstrung by the nature of his job. That being said, the Task views are not a friendly interface unless you're familiar with the material already (i.e. by having used psychometrics or something before).
Re: A big list of the things R can do
#4Here is a big list of R links. Perhaps this gives a better idea of what R can do.
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/2010-June/033791...
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#5This is great thanks - I've got a book on R that a friend found at their work and gave to me. Been meaning to dip into it for a while now.
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#6R has frequently been a source of inspiration for me. (I mention his briefly here: http://mvz.so/articles/lend-a-hand-to-science.html) It appears, to me, as an example of a tool that has done and continues to do its job, for the benefit of all mankind. This isn't to say it couldn't have been done better, but I'm consistently impressed by the wide-ranging use and love that R finds in so many fields, and by the breadth of people who use it, most of whom would never call themselves programmers. I can't figure out what exactly R got right, but I often think it has something to do with the fact that it was created by someone who called himself a statistician, not a programmer.
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#7R is a great language, with lots of features and applications without the incremental stuff added by Revo. Their 'Big Data' stuff isn't for everyone.
Re: A big list of the things R can do
#8This is off topic but why do tools built for large scale analytics or distributed processing have to be so slow at small scale / at the low end.
e.g. R, Erlang, Hadoop.
Feel free to ignore me but please don't downvote without comment :-)
Re: A big list of the things R can do
#9This is off topic but why do tools built for large scale analytics or distributed processing have to be so slow at small scale / at the low end. e.g. R, Erlang, Hadoop. Feel free to ignore me but please don't downvote without comment :-)
Slightly OT, but I wouldn't say that R was "built for large scale analytics." You have to go through some serious hoops to work on anything in R that takes up more than 50% or so of available RAM. Revolution Analytics's R build is designed for it, and some standalone packages like bigmemory can make R work better with large data sets, but vanilla R is awful for the task.