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Re: R for Astronomers [message #65510 is a reply to message #65442]

Thu, 05 March 2009 06:19

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Mike writes:

> I originally picked up R several years ago as a tool for making high
> quality graphics. IMHO, R beats IDL hands down for ease and quality
> of plots. And for statistics, well, that's what it is for. I've
> never even considered using IDL for mixed-effect modeling. But I
> still use IDL for many, many things. Computer languages are not quite
> like marriage - I think it is acceptable to be in serious
> relationships with more than one at a time. Of course juggling
> multiple relationships is fraught with danger - witness my continual
> print, x in R and print(x) in IDL...

Here is a poem I ran across this morning that sums
the matter up nicely:

http://poems.com/poem.php?date=14309

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		R for Astronomers By: David Fanning on Mon, 02 March 2009 11:54
		Re: R for Astronomers By: Mike[2] on Wed, 04 March 2009 06:26
		Re: R for Astronomers By: David Fanning on Thu, 05 March 2009 06:19
		Re: R for Astronomers By: matsu770610 on Tue, 03 March 2009 23:20
		Re: R for Astronomers By: fburton on Tue, 03 March 2009 10:37
		Re: R for Astronomers By: David Fanning on Fri, 06 March 2009 08:58
		Re: R for Astronomers By: ben.bighair on Fri, 06 March 2009 07:22
		Re: R for Astronomers By: Mike[2] on Thu, 05 March 2009 11:09
		Re: R for Astronomers By: David Fanning on Thu, 05 March 2009 09:10

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