[R] general question on Spotfire

Spencer Graves spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com
Wed Jan 11 20:25:23 CET 2012


Roughly 5 years ago, a Spotfire rep at the Joint Statistical Meetings 
told me they routinely interfaced with both R and S-Plus.  I'm not 100% 
certain, but I believe they have many customers who use that facility 
today.  Spencer


On 1/11/2012 10:37 AM, Bert Gunter wrote:
> 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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