[R] Reasons to Use R

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Mon Apr 9 17:27:44 CEST 2007


Have you tried 64 bit machines with larger memory or do you mean
that you can't use R on your current machines?

Also have you tried S-Plus?  Will that work for you? The transition from
that to R would be less than from SAS to R.

On 4/9/07, Jorge Cornejo-Donoso <jorgecornejo at uach.cl> wrote:
> tha s9ze of db is an issue with R. We are still using SAS because R
> can't handle own db, and of couse we don't want to sacrify resolution,
> because the data collection is expensive (at least in fisheries and
> oceagraphy), so.. I think that R need to improve the use of big DBs. Now
> I only can use R for graph preparation and some data analisis, but we
> can't do the main work on R, abd that is really sad.
>



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