From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2006-03-30T14:43:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling R from Ruby

In article <Pine.LNX.4.62.0603291619410.32347@harp.ngdc.noaa.gov>,
 <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Timothy Goddard wrote:
>
>> May I ask what this is for? I've had to learn R recently after working
>> with Ruby for a while and find myself thinking constantly "This would
>> be much simpler if I could only use Ruby!". As far as I've worked out
>> so far:
>>
>> R's advantages:
>> Don't have to teach statisticians OO concepts.
>> Specialised.
>
>you really can subtract
>
>> Fast matrix library.
>> Inbuilt graphing.
>
>because narray and gnuplot are very good.  narray is __very__ fast.
>

what are the alternatives to gnuplot?  What does R use for it's graphing 
engine?

Phil