Re: [ATM] Re: Roddier Cell Measuring

[Michael Peck <mpeck1@ix.netcom.com>]

At 10:26 4/27/05, Richard wrote:
>Hi Michael,
>
>Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 3:59:59 PM, you wrote:
>
>MP> It's free,
>MP> open source, and highly portable (Windows and all flavors of *n?x 
>including
>MP> Mac OSX).
>
>Great stuff Mike, I've downloaded it and the only thing I

If you got it by following the links in my sig you're probably looking at 
my fringe tracing software. That *does* have a GUI, but doesn't do the 
interesting stuff. I'm afraid another lapse on my part is not making the 
PSI analysis software available on any download site except the files area 
on the Yahoo interferometry group. I'll try to rectify that ASAP.

>recognise as what may be a asource file is a *.R - what language
>is R and where can I get a Win32 compiler for it?.

There is no compiler. R is an interpreted language and software 
environment. You can get it by going to <http://www.r-project.org> and 
following the links to the download site of your choice.


>What influenced your choice of such a comparatively unknown
>language for it?
>

R has become something of a de-facto standard in the academic statistics 
community, so it's actually pretty well known among an admittedly small 
group of people. I originally stumbled across it looking for tools to do 
some statistical analyses that were a little more sophisticated than Excel 
can handle. I keep using it because of its high level graphics 
capabilities, efficient and extensive data analysis tools, relatively easy 
to learn very high level language, reasonably efficient FFT and linear 
algebra routines, and built in support for documentation creation. Also, 
it's free.

Mike Peck


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