Statistical Package (like Minitab) for Linux

[Marc Schwartz]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 05:19, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:15:19PM +0200, Mikko Koivunen wrote:
> 
> > Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 
> > >	Anyone knows of a statistical package for use in Linux? 
>  
> > R: http://www.r-project.org/
> 
> > Quite a learning curve
> 
> Not if you like learning :-)


I second the recommendation on R. It is my principal analytic platform.
I run R under ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics), which enables R to run as a
process within X/Emacs. It supports syntax highlighting, tab completion
and other very efficient functionality.

While the primary interaction mechanism is CLI, there are GUI's
available for R, which include John Fox' RCmdr. John has done this in
tcl/tk to make it portable across OSs.

There is great support for R via e-mail lists, there is online
documentation, FAQs and an increasing number of published books
available for it to assist with learning.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz