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2013 Oct 29
1
R vs octave development strategy (and success)
Hi All, if memory serves me well I recall some paper comparing the relative success in getting mainstream acceptance (as mainstream as statistics can be) of both R and Octave. I remember vaguely that the fact the development strategies (core team vs one main developer) played a major role in the relative success of the two programs. I tried to find this paper, but my goggle skills are failing
2010 Nov 01
1
stats, pics etc on CRAN
Does anyone have some nice ways of showing what's on CRAN? A time-series of the number of packages? A clustered graph of packages by keyword? I'm just after a more impressive way of saying "there's 2600 packages on CRAN" than saying that. Counts of lines of R and C/Fortran code would be interesting... The CRANtastic tag cloud is quite handy... Anything else? Barry
2013 Oct 27
2
Heteroscedasticity and mgcv.
I have a two part question one about statistical theory and the other about implementations in R. Thank you for all help in advance. (1) Am I correct in understanding that Heteroscedasticity is a problem for Generalized Additive Models as it is for standard linear models? I am asking particularly about the GAMs as implemented in the mgcv package. Based upon my online search it seems that some