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> From: hampshire-bounces@??? [mailto:hampshire-
> bounces@???] On Behalf Of Robin Wilson
> Sent: 30 October 2011 14:20
> To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Analytics packages
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> I'd recommend going for R. Yes, it's fairly complicated, but it is
> incredibly powerful and very good at dealing with large datasets.
> Depending on your needs, RStudio (http://rstudio.org/) may be useful as an
> Integrated Development Environment for R - very lightweight, but helps a
> lot. There are also more fully-featured GUIs available like R Commander
> (http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/).
>
> Hope that might help,
>
> Robin
>
Thanks Robin - I'd not seen Rstudio (another gui for R) before - been using
RCmdr. While Rstudio certainly looks a bit better than RCmdr, I'm truly
amazed how bad it is. Unless I've missed something obvious, you click on a
package to install it, then it brings up a dialog asking you to type the
name of the package you've just clicked on back in before it will install
it.
Truly amazing. R itself is very good if you have the patience to learn it
- but these guis actually IMHO make it worse!
Cheers
Rob
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