[R] Numerical Recipes in R

Thomas Adams Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov
Fri Feb 9 13:06:09 CET 2007


Lorenzo,

You may want to look at Octave, which is a MatLab gnu clone:

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

Regards,
Tom


Lorenzo Isella wrote:
> Dear All,
> So far I have mainly used R for data analysis and simple numerics
> (integration of functions, splines etc...).
> However, I have recently been astonished at finding out that many
> things I thought were only achievable with Fortran or C can be done
> e.g. entirely using MatLab.
> When I try asking around if the same could be achieved by R,
> inevitably the answer is that either people do not know R or there is
> so much numerical MatLab code (for instance for solving partial
> differential equations), that there is no point in switching to R.
> Does anyone know if this is really the situation? I am wondering if
> there is anywhere a kind of freely available collection of reliable
> numerical software written in R which is not only geared towards
> statistics and data analysis.
> Kind Regards
>
> Lorenzo
>
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