[R] newbie list

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Jonathan Baron wrote:

...

> Have such things happened with SPlus?  I suspect not, but R is
> different because, in the long run, more students will get it
> (because they can afford it), so (I hope) there will be more
> newbies than SPlus ever had.

Not that I know of, and there are large student communities out there for
S-PLUS. (Ours can certainly afford it under current licencing models: it
costs them the same as R.)

One difference is that students are only likely to be using S-PLUS with
institutional blessing and hence support.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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