[R] Simulation

Wacek Kusnierczyk Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk at idi.ntnu.no
Thu May 14 13:34:21 CEST 2009


Barry Rowlingson wrote:
>
>  Computer scientists will write their beautiful manuscripts, but how
> many people who come to R because they want to do a t-test or fit a
> GLM will read them? That's the R-help audience now.
>   

don't forget that r seems to take, maybe undeserved, the pride of being
a functional programming language.  it has apparently been designed by
people who don't think implementing cs guys' ideas is necessarily a bad
idea.  you do have lapply & co in r, not without a purpose.  certainly
not to just please computer scientists.

vQ




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