[Quantian-general] R & Octave

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

(resending as I had inadvertendly dropped the CC to the list --Dirk)

On 16 February 2008 at 17:34, CalcPage at aol.com wrote:
| OK, so Octave is like MatLab, 

Wrong again. Octave is similar to Matlab.

| and Maxima is like Maple or Mathematica, and  R 
| is like S.
|  
| This is all very interesting.  I wouldlove to expose my students some  of thi
| s.  BTW, we do touch on vector calculus and even a little linear  algebra, 
| MatLab will be very useful.
|  
| Also, do MatLab or R have any Computer Algebra System packages, ie: can  they 
| do symbolic manipulations like Mathematica?  My students have some  
| experience with this since we use TI-89s.

R has 1000+ contributed packages (really: more than one-thousand) at
CRAN. One of them is Ryacas, an interface to yacas (which IIRC is also in
Quantian). See 
	http://code.google.com/p/ryacas/
	http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Ryacas/index.html

Dirk

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