[R] general question on Spotfire

[Louis Bajuk-Yorgan]

Hello,

I am a Product Manager at Spotfire, focused on integrating statistical capabilities from R & S+ into Spotfire, so I will make a few comments:

1. We have a quite a few customers who use Spotfire and R side-by-side for doing ad hoc data analysis. Sometimes by the same user, sometimes by different users collaborating in a group. Each fills a different niche (with Spotfire focusing on highly interactive visualizations), and often different users are more comfortable with one or the other. Sometimes users will do their initial data manipulation and analysis in R, and then move the data into Spotfire for further interaction, and presentation to other, non-R users. 

2. Our focus at Spotfire has been on integrating R & S+ (as Peter mentions below), so that it's easy to create and share interactive Spotfire applications that leverage analytics from R & S+. We want to help customers put the power of R & S+ into the hands of more users, in applications that are friendly and familiar to them. 

If you'd like more info on that, check out the info on the Statistics Services product at spotfire.tibco.com, or this recorded webcast: http://www.screencast.com/t/So5Kz7gJI4

Regards
Lou
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Lou Bajuk-Yorgan
Sr. Director, Product Management
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
206-802-2328
lbajuk at tibco.com
http://spotfire.tibco.com

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of peter dalgaard
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:17 AM
To: Duncan Murdoch
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] general question on Spotfire


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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