Re: Concerns about SPLUS version 7

[Patrick Burns <pburns@pburns.seanet.com>]

Liaw, Andy wrote:

> I'll chip in my $0.02:
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> 4. BDR said in one of his talks a few years ago that R probably 
>   has more bugs than S-PLUS.  However, bugs in R get fixed a 
>   lot quicker than in S-PLUS.  Also, R is developed at a much
>   faster pace than S-PLUS.  That it may have more bugs is 
>   understandable.
Things may have changed substantially in a few years.  The relative 
number of
bugs in each package is a difficult quantity to estimate, and it will 
depend on
what your definition is of 'R' and 'S-PLUS'.  However, my personal 
experience
is categorically different:  I've found S-PLUS (for Windows) to have a 
number of
bugs, and R to have only an occasional minor bug.


Patrick Burns

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