[R] The Wrong Choice: Locked in by license restrictions

[Murray Jorgensen]

A colleague pointed me to this article advocating R as a Matlab 
substitute. Here is the link (deliberately on two lines:

http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/
originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci902076,00.html

I'm not a Matlab user, but I understand that it provides a nice front 
end to the Linpack collection of numerical linear algebra routines. My 
friend and I wonder if R can really compete in that league. Does anyone 
know if there are published benchmark comparisons between R and other 
packages like Matlab with the focus on numerical stability rather than 
speed?

Cheers,

Murray

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