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Message-ID: <01040609352606.09474@friedman>
Date: 2001-04-06T14:35:26Z
From: Alvaro A. Novo
Subject: Using Gauss with R
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10104060921520.6597-100000@localhost.localdomain>

On Friday 06 April 2001 03:34, Bill Simpson wrote:
   > This is a tangent to your question.
   >
   > The economist Jurgen Doornik has written a language called Ox:
   > http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Users/Doornik/doc/ox/ox.htm
   > It obviously caters to econometricians. The unix version is free.
   >
   > I did use it at one time before R was really rolling. I used it for MLE
   > because I think at that time there was no nlm() routine in R yet!  Ox
   > seemed fine though had no graphics.
   >
   > Anyway I am mentioning this in case Ox is similar to Gauss. I know that
   > Ox is C-like, maybe Gauss is too, and so maybe not too hard to port
   > Gauss progs to Ox.

Let me add that Ox comes with a function g2ox which transforms Gauss to Ox 
code. Also, Ox is extremely fast (read it and experienced it).

Alvaro Novo

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   > Bill Simpson
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