From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Sebastien Vauban" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: R development environment Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 09:40:07 +0200 Organization: Sebastien Vauban Message-ID: <86iozpluzs.fsf_-_@somewhere.org> References: <87y58pplcp.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87fvuwgsv0.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <075751cf-97a3-4d01-8fb1-4ffbc0180f3f@googlegroups.com> <878v0oxfdw.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87ob9j8sf3.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375343113 31989 80.91.229.3 (1 Aug 2013 07:45:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 07:45:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Thu Aug 01 09:45:16 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V4nZU-0002zw-Gs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 09:45:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39357 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4nZT-00007M-W3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 03:45:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="402b34550bd938aa98825778083dce0e"; logging-data="14441"; mail-complaints-to="abuse-VVbKFVtnif8H+i2N2EyTrmui9UKz+5OX@public.gmane.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+XK8ZRSx95ZaRi5L67IR3m" User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) X-Archive: encrypt Cancel-Lock: sha1:L+i7cXXa/js49OglGD6j1urj7ig= sha1:pGRhi/RZa//juP4Oocyoe7XGceg= X-Url: Under construction... Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200349 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92616 Archived-At: Phillip Lord wrote: > Emanuel Berg writes: >> phillip.lord-6agwQxOQk07RR8QwpCAWVg@public.gmane.org (Phillip Lord) writes: >> >>>> What is R? >>> >>> A programming language designed for doing stats. It's a really, >>> really bizarre language which messes your head up, but is >>> perfect for stats. >>> >>> And, yes, there is an emacs package for it. Very good too! >>> >>> http://ess.r-project.org/ >> >> Cool! I like stats, like all boys, I was about to say. Probably >> MATLAB draw some inspiration from R, in that case. And possibly >> even from FORTRAN, the legacy "number crunching language" number >> one. (Or so they say.) > > R was originally inspired by S which was a commercial equivalent. But > there are now many. many libraries for R. including things like > bioconductor which is great if you handling biological data. > > R by itself doesn't come with an integrated GUI like matlab, although > you can use R studio which is nice (or Emacs which is my poison). It's > main advantage over matlab is you don't have to spend time fighting with > the license server which can be a tremendous pain. Anybody having a configuration to share, in order to get an R environment such as the one showed on page 9/50 of the slides http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/rtc/event/introduction-r? Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban