Hi R,
Can I get a comparison between R and MATLAB? How is R efficient than MATLAB? Or
what are the weaknesses of R compared to MATLAB?
Thank you very much for your help,
Shubha
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This discussion has already occurred- to my knowledge at least once. I would suggest searching the archived list, and see what you get. If you still have questions after you have a look then fire a couple of specifics, but speaking for myself I don't know anything about matlab only S (and even that is limited). On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth < shubhak@ambaresearch.com> wrote:> Hi R, > > > > Can I get a comparison between R and MATLAB? How is R efficient than > MATLAB? Or what are the weaknesses of R compared to MATLAB? > > > > > > Thank you very much for your help, > > Shubha > > Shubha Karanth | Amba Research > > Ph +91 80 3980 8031 | Mob +91 94 4886 4510 > > Bangalore * Colombo * London * New York * San José * Singapore * > www.ambaresearch.com > > > > This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:13}} > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >-- Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
"Shubha Vishwanath Karanth" <shubhak at ambaresearch.com> wrote in message news:7D44476A5833D340A0A85099D5EAD8B2832C at BAN-MAILSRV02.Amba.com... Can I get a comparison between R and MATLAB? How is R efficient than MATLAB? Or what are the weaknesses of R compared to MATLAB? Don't forget to compare licenses and cost. Matlab's rigid and unreasonable license is the main reason I use R now. Several years ago the Mathworks refused to let a post doc and me share a MatLab license -- they wanted all single-user licenses to be named users even if each of us only needed MatLab a few hours a month. I asked if they had a "math model" for what we got for a license, but they didn't care that there was a huge disconnect between what they wanted to sell and our usage needs. I quit using MatLab, converted my project from MatLab to R, and now steer as many people to R as possible. The Mathworks refuses to acknowledge that life-science users of math tools are not like physical science users. Biologists can spend weeks or months on experiments and then occasionally need high-end math tools for analysis. A single shared network MatLab license outside of academia is outrageously expensive. A single network concurrent license for Matlab and the Image processing, Signal Processing and PDE toolboxes costs $18,800 -- I received that quote just yesterday since we still have a few people that use existing MatLab code. MatLab may be a good product, but the Mathworks is unreasonable in how they license it. We are a non-profit, basic life scientific research institute and the Mathworks sells us the same license as for-profit businesses. Only degree-granting universities are eligible for academic pricing apparently. efg Earl F Glynn Bioinformatics Stowers Institute for Medical Research