R or Splus?
J.Brainard at uea.ac.uk writes:
It's been suggested I use R, I suppose because my employer is too
skint to pay for a copy of Splus.
But.... it doesn't seem to be stable. I was trying to do some
ordinary regression and stepping through a model. I was trying to
set up a model ('kitchen_sink') in which to put all my model
parameters. Then I wanted to use step() to see what it would reduce
the model to. I couldn't even get started though. I would specify
the same model again and again, with just a few of the possible
variables, and sometimes lm() would fall over and return an error
message, sometimes the regression ran fine. I got fed up and ftp'd
the original tables up to a machine running Splus, where the models
ran fine, every time, with all kinds of specifications.
Is this a normal experience? Is R buggy or what? I note the other
email that R can't handle files named x. If I can use Splus, should
I just do that?
We haven't heard of problems of that magnitude lately. In general, we try to fix problems as soon as they can be identified, but you're not giving us much to go on with that kind of report. - which version of R? - which operating system? - which commands are you trying to run? - what are the error messages and other symptoms of misbehavior?
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