| IDL vs SPlus; or similar packages for MS Windows [message #1153] |
Thu, 15 July 1993 14:58 |
rfinch
Messages: 51
Registered: March 1991
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This is one of those dreary posts asking for people's product
comparisons. At least I'm not asking about Amiga vs Atari. No, I need
a data analysis package for a 486 running Windows.
Requirements/Wants:
- strong interactive visualization (graphics) tools. But this should
allow interactive sifting of data (more than just plotting).
- some sort of efficient method for storing and retrieving
time-series data.
- programming language
- some statistics, preferably with Fourier and time-series analysis
capability.
- menu system would be nice, but command line is ok.
- ability to develop a custom GUI for particular apps would be nice.
I would use IDL (PV-Wave), because that's what I know already. But
they want $1000-$1500 for the 486 version, too much I think. SPlus
would only charge $500, because we have that already on Suns and they
offer a discount. But I haven't used it so don't know anything about
it. So first, if anybody out there has used IDL and SPlus, I would
much appreciate your opinions on both, or even SPlus alone.
Secondly, if anybody can recommend something besides SPlus, I would
appreciate that. I'm looking for something in the $300-$500 range.
Heavy-duty statistics that SAS and SPSS offer are less important than
visualization and programming functions.
I'll summarize as usual. Followups to comp.graphics.visualization, or
email to me.
--
Ralph Finch 916-653-8268 voice
rfinch@water.ca.gov 916-653-6077 fax
Any opinions expressed are my own; they do not represent the DWR
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