From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?" Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:10:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87vc3rx74s.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk> 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 1375272634 15812 80.91.229.3 (31 Jul 2013 12:10:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:10:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 31 14:10:36 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 1V4VEg-00072J-Vj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:10:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38458 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4VEg-0000sd-EN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:10:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59898) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4VES-0000sW-HA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:10:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4VEO-0001b1-BE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:10:20 -0400 Original-Received: from cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.22]:38436) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4VEO-0001af-5T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:10:16 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129]) by cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1V4VEJ-0003TT-FO; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:10:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (zerg32.ncl.ac.uk [10.66.65.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r6VCABcM010762 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:10:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87ob9j8sf3.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Wed, 31 Jul 2013 02:49:36 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.22 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.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@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92586 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (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. Phil