general question on Spotfire
Peter et. al: 1. I agree with Duncan: wrong list. 2. AFAIK, Spotfire **already** can interface with R. -- Bert
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:17 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 11, 2012, at 16:28 , Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 12-01-11 10:13 AM, John Smith wrote:
Dear R users, I have been using R for 10 years, and I love it very much. But in my daily job for drug discovery, some people use Spotfire. I tried Spotfire on couple of data sets. It sounds I still need do some data manipulation before plot figures. For example, I can not plot figure with data arranged in rows (is this true, or I am stupid?). ? So far I don't feel any benefit Spotfire can provide over R. I am just wondering whether it just because I am new to Spotfire, or it's true that Spotfire is not a good tool for statistician. Also could anyone give me any suggestion how to learn Spotfire?
Shouldn't you be asking this question to Spotfire users?
Just to clue in the casual reader, Spotfire embeds a version of S+, which is, er, sort of, like, a predecessor to R, so John is not completely off target. Documents comparing R and S+ should be useful to him. There are books that are "bilingual", such as Venables and Ripley MASS and S Programming, but I also spotted this on TIBCO's own site: http://spotfire.tibco.com/community/blogs/stn/archive/2010/11/04/differences-between-r-and-spotfire-s.aspx Also, there are (claimed to be) facilities to integrate R itself in Spotfire, which could be a rather expedient solution.
Duncan Murdoch
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