[R] OT: any recommendation for scripting language

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On 12/30/06, Wensui Liu <liuwensui at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Experts,
>
> Thank you so much for your opinions. I probably will go with python.
>
> Following your suggestion, I started reading some tutorials but have a
> quick question. In the sense of statistical computing, is there
> anything that can be easily done with python but not with SAS/R? Could
> you please give such an example?

I gather that just about anything can be done in R and have seen some
pretty amazing examples, but I come from "the right tool for the job"
school as contrasted to the "when you have a hammer everything begins
to look like a nail" school. As a consequence I tend to use R for
statistics, SQL for database management, gnuplot for graphics and
Python for general programming and glue... A lot of that has to do
with the order in which I learned the tools, for example I am much
faster/more productive with gnuplot than with R graphics, but that gap
is narrowing as I climb R's grade.

    jab--not an expert, just a traveller
-- 
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