[R] general question on Spotfire

[Bert Gunter]

Peter et. al:

1. I agree with Duncan: wrong list.

2. AFAIK, Spotfire **already** can interface with R.

-- Bert

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:17 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 11, 2012, at 16:28 , Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
>> On 12-01-11 10:13 AM, John Smith wrote:
>>> Dear R users,
>>>
>>> I have been using R for 10 years, and I love it very much. But in my daily
>>> job for drug discovery, some people use Spotfire. I tried Spotfire on
>>> couple of data sets. It sounds I still need do some data manipulation
>>> before plot figures. For example, I can not plot figure with data arranged
>>> in rows (is this true, or I am stupid?).   So far I don't feel any benefit
>>> Spotfire can provide over R. I am just wondering whether it just because I
>>> am new to Spotfire, or it's true that Spotfire is not a good tool for
>>> statistician.
>>>
>>> Also could anyone give me any suggestion how to learn Spotfire?
>>
>> Shouldn't you be asking this question to Spotfire users?
>
> Just to clue in the casual reader, Spotfire embeds a version of S+, which is, er, sort of, like, a predecessor to R, so John is not completely off target.
>
> Documents comparing R and S+ should be useful to him. There are books that are "bilingual", such as Venables and Ripley MASS and S Programming, but I also spotted this on TIBCO's own site:
>
> http://spotfire.tibco.com/community/blogs/stn/archive/2010/11/04/differences-between-r-and-spotfire-s.aspx
>
> Also, there are (claimed to be) facilities to integrate R itself in Spotfire, which could be a rather expedient solution.
>
>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
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