[R] [friday topic]: what exactly is statistical computing

[Bos, Roger]

This means it comes with substantial statistical routines built-in.  You
could just as well use VBA or Java for your programming language, but
with those you would have to write pretty much any stat routine you
need.  With R, since it is a 'statistical computing' language, you know
that most of what you need has already been programmed, tested(?), and
is ready to use. 

I have seen you on this list for a while.  You already know all this.  I
am not sure why you are asking this question.

Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Wensui Liu
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 9:43 AM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] [friday topic]: what exactly is statistical computing

Dear List,
on www.r-project.org, the title says 'The R Project for Statistical
Computing'.

but what exactly is the definition of statistical computing?

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