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Afrazzle@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoI’m curious why you chose R as an alternative to Matlab instead of Scilab. Scilab is specifically designed to be a free and open source alternative to Matlab.
For my thesis I was writing some test software and when deciding which language to use Matlab was immediately ruled out due to the cost (and also the extra cost for the toolkits I’d need). I instead went with Scilab which now means that anybody wanting to reproduce my results can do so freely.
Zeth0s@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because at the time I needed more the statistical and plotting. Ggplot was not yet a thing, but R was already pretty nice for plotting and stat.
I was using other languages for more intensive tasks, as I was working in high performance computing.
Afrazzle@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Makes sense, thanks for the response! It is kind of fun to have a mix of the higher level (like R/Scilab) and lower level (which I used Fortran for mine).
Zeth0s@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We all started with fortran the old times in hpc and scientific computing. Kids nowadays don’t know the thrill of retro engineering fortran code! /s