Newbie Question on R versus Matlab/Octave versus C
Two additional comments: - depending on the nature of your problem you may be able to get an analytic solution using branching processes. I found this approach successful when I once had to model stem cell growth. - in addition to NetLogo another alternative to R would be the Julia language which is motivated to some degree by Octave but is actually quite different and is particularly suitable in terms of performance for iterative computations where one iteration depends on the prior one. On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 6:32 PM Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
R has many similarities to Octave. Have a look at: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/R-and-octave.txt https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=matconv On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 4:58 PM Alan Feuerbacher <alanf00 at comcast.net> wrote:
Hi, I recently learned of the existence of R through a physicist friend who uses it in his research. I've used Octave for a decade, and C for 35 years, but would like to learn R. These all have advantages and disadvantages for certain tasks, but as I'm new to R I hardly know how to evaluate them. Any suggestions? Thanks! --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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