Hi,
   
  Any software have a particularity it  will not be very interesting for us to have many softwares that does the same Job. Why do you want R to have comparable commands than Stata, SAS or SPSS. I thing the S language is very powerful and permit many extended things that why ACM grant to S is famous price to R and congratulate John Chambers effort.
   
   We should go a head, but not look behind and simplify any things because science aims parcimony and not simplicity.
  

Ruben Roa <RRoa@fisheries.gov.fk> a écrit :
  > -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch [SMTP:r-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of David Forrest
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 6:16 PM
> To: Gabor Grothendieck
> Cc: Thomas Lumley; R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch; Patrick Burns; Peter Dalgaard
> Subject: Re: [R] A comment about R:
> 
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> ...
> > In fact there are some things that are very easy
> > to do in Stata and can be done in R but only with more difficulty.
> > For example, consider this introductory session in Stata:
> >
> > http://www.stata.com/capabilities/session.html
> >
> > Looking at the first few queries,
> > see how easy it is to take the top few in Stata whereas in R one would
> > have a complex use of order. Its not hard in R to write a function
> > that would make it just as easy but its not available off the top
> > of one's head though RSiteSearch("sort.data.frame") will find one
> > if one knew what to search for.
> 
> This sort of thing points to an opportunity for documentation. Building a
> tutorial session in R on how one would do a similar analysis would provide
> another method of learning R. "An Introduction to R" is a good bottom-up
> introduction, which if you work through it does teach you how to do
> several things. Adapting other tutorials or extended problems, like the
> Stata session, to R would give additional entry points. A few end-to-end
> tutorials on some interesting analyses would be helpful.
> 
> Any volunteers?
> 
> Dave
> -- 
> Dr. David Forrest
> drf@vims.edu (804)684-7900w
> drf5n@maplepark.com (804)642-0662h
> http://maplepark.com/~drf5n/
> 
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I am not volunteering but i would like to point out that Paulo Ribeiro's illustrative session
on package geoR and Ole Christensen's similar document for geoRglm are, IMO,
excellent examples on how to make things easier for beginners.
Ruben

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