R development environment

[Sebastien Vauban]

Phillip Lord wrote:
> Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
>> phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) writes:
>>
>>>> What is R?
>>>
>>> A programming language designed for doing stats. It's a really,
>>> really bizarre language which messes your head up, but is
>>> perfect for stats.
>>>
>>> And, yes, there is an emacs package for it. Very good too!
>>>
>>> http://ess.r-project.org/
>>
>> Cool! I like stats, like all boys, I was about to say. Probably
>> MATLAB draw some inspiration from R, in that case. And possibly
>> even from FORTRAN, the legacy "number crunching language" number
>> one. (Or so they say.)
>
> R was originally inspired by S which was a commercial equivalent. But
> there are now many. many libraries for R. including things like
> bioconductor which is great if you handling biological data.
>
> R by itself doesn't come with an integrated GUI like matlab, although
> you can use R studio which is nice (or Emacs which is my poison). It's
> main advantage over matlab is you don't have to spend time fighting with
> the license server which can be a tremendous pain.

Anybody having a configuration to share, in order to get an R environment such
as the one showed on page 9/50 of the slides
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/rtc/event/introduction-r?

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban