[Blindmath] Introduction

Thu Jul 29 09:26:51 UTC 2010

Congratulations Jonathan! All the happiness and health to you and your family.

Quoting Roopakshi Pathania <r_akshi_tgk at yahoo.com>:

>
> Hmm, I'm very happy to see you back.
> Many congratulations from my side.
>
> I have forwarded you a couple of mails, hopefully you'll find them.
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> --- On Sun, 6/20/10, Jonathan Godfrey <a.j.godfrey at massey.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>> From: Jonathan Godfrey <a.j.godfrey at massey.ac.nz>
>> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Introduction
>> To: "Christine Szostak" <szostak.1 at osu.edu>, "Blind Math list for   
>> those interested in mathematics" <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
>> Date: Sunday, June 20, 2010, 3:03 PM
>> Hi all,
>>
>> R is a tongue in cheek dig at the S language developed at
>> Bell which
>> was commercialized and distributed as S-Plus. R is based
>> heavily on S
>> and the syntax is at least 99% common between the two.
>> Certainly,
>> most S routines people wrote in the past are implemented in
>> R with
>> little hassle. It took me about half a day to convert my
>> entire set
>> of files from my PhD (SPlus files) into R. Going back the
>> other way
>> would not be fun though.
>>
>> R is actually named after the two men who started the
>> programming.
>> Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka were working together at
>> the
>> University of Auckland here in New Zealand. Most of the
>> development
>> of R is now controlled by a core development team from all
>> over the
>> globe, but the greatest two advantages that R has over all
>> other
>> statistical software is that it is 1. free, and 2. easily
>> expanded to
>> do anything at all that you want to do.
>>
>> The best news for our community is that it takes so little
>> to gain as
>> complete access to it as we can ever expect from
>> statistical
>> software. The help is accessible, being html based and
>> the  output
>> files are plain text. Graphs are always going to be a
>> challenge, but
>> I note that at least someone else in the R community wanted
>> SVG
>> format enough that it has been developed. I haven't tested
>> it yet as
>> this is of little immediate use to me.
>>
>> I still have a large back-log of messages from this list to
>> work
>> through and I note some are on the topic of R. I've had to
>> prioritise
>> a fair bit in the last couple of months due to the arrival
>> of our
>> first baby but if you have had R questions that haven't
>> been
>> answered, you might be best to direct them to me off list.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> At 04:00 p.m. 20/06/2010, you wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >  R is not the company name, but rather a spoof
>> name based on an
>> > earlier more elaborated stats software package
>> produced by the same
>> > company, Bell Labs???? called S+. If my memory is
>> mis-serving,
>> > anyone should feel free to correct my recollection.
>> >
>> >  by the way, welcome to the list. I am a graduate
>> student studying
>> > cognitive psychology at Ohio State.
>> >Many thanks,
>> >Christine
>> >
>> >
>> >Christine M. Szostak
>> >Graduate Student
>> >Language Perception Laboratory
>> >Department of Psychology, Cognitive Area
>> >The Ohio State University
>> >Columbus, Ohio
>> >szostak.1 at osu.edu
>> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Salisbury, Justin
>> Mark"
>> ><SALISBURYJ08 at students.ecu.edu>
>> >To: "Blind Math list for those interested in
>> mathematics"
>> ><blindmath at nfbnet.org>
>> >Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 10:39 PM
>> >Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Introduction
>> >
>> >
>> >>Does anyone know what the company "R" is?  I'm
>> referring to the one
>> >>mentioning in the email below.
>> >>
>> >>Thank you!
>> >>
>> >>Justin
>> >>
>> >>Justin M. Salisbury
>> >>Undergraduate Student
>> >>The University Honors Program
>> >>East Carolina University
>> >>salisburyj08 at students.ecu.edu
>> >>
>> >>"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to
>> entertain a
>> >>thought without accepting it."   
>> -Aristotle
>> >>________________________________________
>> >>From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>
>> >>on behalf of Jared Wright [wright.jaredm at gmail.com]
>> >>Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 12:10 AM
>> >>To: qubit; Blind Math list for those interested in
>> mathematics
>> >>Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Introduction
>> >>
>> >>On 6/16/2010 10:07 PM, qubit wrote:
>> >>"You say you like statistics. Immediately when I
>> hear that I think of
>> >>all the
>> >>complaints I hear on this list about statistics
>> packages not being very
>> >>accessible."
>> >>I thought R was considered both one of the industry
>> leaders for stats
>> >>and was completely accessible on account of being
>> completely operable
>> >>through a CLI? Not really my realm of expertise at
>> all, just thought
>> >>that's what I'd read on this list and others like
>> it.
>> >>
>> >>
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