Hello Splusers, I stumbled across the excellent comparison of Splus and SAS
in Alzola and Harrell's "An Introductionto S and the Hmisc and Design
Libraries" on the Hmisc web page. I am wondering if anybody has done
similar comparisons between Splus and Matlab. I don't use Matlab, but a
lot of my oceanographic colleagues do, and since we have a paid-for site
license my students are starting to use it. However, I am not sure which
package would be most useful to them in the long run, and neither I (who
don't use matlab) nor my colleagues (who don't use Splus) can advise them
on that.
Apart from the obvious difference that Splus is designed more for
exploratory data analysis and Matlab for data manipulation, there seems to
be some convergence in current capabilities. So, I am wondering if anybody
has put together a comparison like that on the Hmisc web page, or barring
that, if anybody with experience in both can make such a comparison off the
cuff.
Thanks....
Wim Kimmerer
======================
Dr. Wim Kimmerer
Romberg Tiburon Center
San Francisco State University
3152 Paradise Drive
Tiburon CA 94920
Ph. (415) 338-3515
Fax (415) 435-7120
http://online.sfsu.edu/~kimmerer/
|