[Haskell-cafe] data analysis question

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Jeffrey Brown <jeffbrown.the at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My experience with R is that, while worlds more powerful than the dominant
> commercial alternatives (Stata, SAS, it was unintuitive relative to other
> general-purpose languages like Python. I wonder/speculate whether it was
> distorted by the pull of its statistical applications away from what would
> be more natural.
>

It is an open source implementation of S (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_(programming_language) ) which was developed
specifically for statistical applications. I would wonder how much of
*that* was shaped by Fortran statistical packages....

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