[Blindmath] Introduction

Sun Jun 20 10:41:21 UTC 2010

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. 

--- 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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