[OS X TeX] [Sort-of Off]: Plotting Software

[Fernando Pereira]

On Mar 7, 2006, at 4:37 AM, markus bongard wrote:
> R -  is `GNU S', a freely available language and environment for  
> statistical computing and graphics which provides a wide variety of  
> statistical and graphical techniques: linear and nonlinear  
> modeling, statistical tests, time series analysis, classification,  
> clustering, etc. -> http://cran.r-project.org/

Although R/S's language takes some getting used to, there's excellent  
documentation and several outstanding text books for it, and it  
produces easily the best statistical plots of any free software. The  
investment in learning R will pay off handsomely in better data  
analysis. Depending on what I'm doing and who I'm working with, it's  
either R or MATLAB (not free). Both produce plots that are easy to  
incorporate into LaTeX documents.

-- F

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