[R] Newbie Question on R versus Matlab/Octave versus C

Gabor Grothendieck
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 23:32:49 -0000

R has many similarities to Octave.  Have a look at:

https://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/R-and-octave.txt
https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=matconv

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 4:58 PM Alan Feuerbacher <alanf00 at comcast.net>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently learned of the existence of R through a physicist friend who
> uses it in his research. I've used Octave for a decade, and C for 35
> years, but would like to learn R. These all have advantages and
> disadvantages for certain tasks, but as I'm new to R I hardly know how
> to evaluate them. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
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