[R] R & gams

[Sarah Goslee]

On 10/27/06, Wensui Liu <liuwensui at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am so surprised to hear "gams is specialised in dealing with huge,
> hevy-weight linear and non-linear modelling ". That is not what I know
> of about GAM, which means generalized additive model.


That would be because the original question was not about GAM, but
rather GAMS, which is a software package, not a single statistical
technique.

>From the web page (www.gams.com):
The General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) is a high-level modeling
system for mathematical programming and optimization. It consists of a
language compiler and a stable of integrated high-performance solvers.
GAMS is tailored for complex, large scale modeling applications, and
allows you to build large maintainable models that can be adapted
quickly to new situations.


I would guess that it's _possible_ to do all of the included analyses
in R, but it
most likely won't be as easy as in a prearranged commercial package.

Sarah

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