From wsi@gcal.ac.uk Sun Jun 6 23:12:36 CDT 1999 Article: 34015 of sci.math.num-analysis Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis,sci.stat.math Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 09:14:13 +0000 From: Bill Simpson Reply-To: Bill Simpson Subject: Re: matlab vs S+ In-Reply-To: <7ivb88$mki$2@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Message-ID: References: <374AB732.5FEA285E@worldnet.att.net> <7ivb88$mki$2@solaris.cc.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-Host: cbe207.gcal.ac.uk Lines: 19 Path: news.math.niu.edu!husk.cso.niu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!server6.netnews.ja.net!phoenix.gcal.ac.uk!cbe207.gcal.ac.uk!wsimpson Xref: news.math.niu.edu sci.math.num-analysis:34015 sci.stat.math:22902 > > Another point of comparison: we have had enormous licensing problems > with Matlab. They have been exceptionally difficult to work with, and > even the PC product has cumbersome multi-user licensing installation; > it's just a pita. I've been very pleased with Mathsoft in this > matter. This has been a big problem here since Mathematica has been > very attractive price-wise; accordingly, its lack of suitability for > numerical calculations has not kept many from wasting their time with > it (similar to Excel in that matter). You might try the freeware Matlab clones Octave and Scilab. For S-Plus, you might try the freeware clone R http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R/ As for which is better, I haven't used Matlab or its clones. I use R mostly because I am working with a statistician who uses S-Plus. Bill