Comments on: Exciting Technique #1: The “R” language. http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/01/exciting-technique-1-the-r-language/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=exciting-technique-1-the-r-language The Applied Theorist's Point of View Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: jmount http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/01/exciting-technique-1-the-r-language/comment-page-1/#comment-1555 jmount Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:06:49 +0000 http://www.win-vector.com/blog/?p=26#comment-1555 Quick update- I strongly recommend R, but it turns out I can not really recommend John M. Chambers' book “Software for Data Analysis, Programming with R." Quick update- I strongly recommend R, but it turns out I can not really recommend John M. Chambers’ book “Software for Data Analysis, Programming with R.”

]]> By: admin http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/01/exciting-technique-1-the-r-language/comment-page-1/#comment-15 admin Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:05:18 +0000 http://www.win-vector.com/blog/?p=26#comment-15 A relevant comment by Win-Vector Principal Consultant Nina Zumel on our good friend's <a href="http://erehweb.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/r-and-data/" rel="nofollow">blog</a>: It’s like that joke about boats: the worst thing you can do with them is put them in the water. The worst thing you can do with R is give it data... We make a point of doing as much of the data massaging and cleaning as we can outside of R (a point John conveniently ignored in his post), usually in Java. A relevant comment by Win-Vector Principal Consultant Nina Zumel on our good friend’s blog:

It’s like that joke about boats: the worst thing you can do with them is put them in the water. The worst thing you can do with R is give it data…

We make a point of doing as much of the data massaging and cleaning as we can outside of R (a point John conveniently ignored in his post), usually in Java.

]]>