[R] Pros and Cons of R
John Kane
jrkrideau at yahoo.ca
Fri May 23 20:57:15 CEST 2008
I even carry a copy of R on a USB so that I can do a
bit of work on a machine that does not have it
installed. It's a bit slow and one would not want to
do anything major with it but it's handy to show
someone a quick graph or check something when far from
the office.
--- seanpor <seanpor at acm.org> wrote:
>
>
> Neil Shephard wrote:
> >
> > Another pro to consider is the cost, you can
> obtain R for free,
> > SAS/S-Plus/Stata all have licenses of some sort
> that require purchasing.
> >
> > Neil
> >
>
> Which has the side effect of *not* restricting how
> many machines are
> available for use or where; e.g. I was running big
> process a couple of
> different times with different scenarios, so I just
> fired up a few un-used
> machines and had them all running in parallel for
> the afternoon - no
> installation issues as I was able to run it off the
> network drive (windows
> as it happens). If I was licence restricted this
> would not have been
> possible.
>
> Similarly I can do analyses at home on any machine
> or even if I'm visiting
> somewhere else!
>
> Regards
> Sean
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