From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-65568-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1I0G1d-0004nF-En for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:08:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5IC6l2j025611; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:06:47 GMT Received: from smtp.easynet.es (smtp.easynet.es [62.93.189.64]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5IC2SqB020839 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:02:29 GMT Received: from bt-silvano.easynet.es ([213.139.15.18] helo=[172.30.1.51]) by smtp.easynet.es with asmtp (Exim 4.33; FreeBSD) id 1I0FwB-000A6k-KW for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:02:27 +0200 Message-ID: <46767424.1010906@silvanoc.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:01:40 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Abraham_Mar=EDn_P=E9rez?= <tecnic5@silvanoc.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Modelling software - free - preferably easy to install under Gentoo. References: <46740C9C.5020704@shic.co.uk> <loom.20070616T191505-953@post.gmane.org> <20070618114743.GA1672@gifu.shic.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070618114743.GA1672@gifu.shic.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Easynet-bounce-key: easynet.es;tecnic5@silvanoc.com;1182168149;a2be7128; Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l5IC6l34025611 X-Archives-Salt: 2bbac9ea-1324-45b9-87bb-e4525ed304db X-Archives-Hash: bfe7774971c721ae159fd90ffae8aca3 Steve [Gentoo] escribi=F3: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 05:22:47PM +0000, James wrote: > =20 >> Matlab is the standard for mathematical analysis of all sorts of >> phenomenon, from a mathematical perspective. >> =20 > > I'm familiar with Matlab... you're the second person to mention > Octave... > > =20 >>> I would like to do some analysis on these signals to see if there are >>> any interesting things that can be demonstrated - for example, if I >>> could show a strong correlation in the signals between two times, but >>> none at other times, I might be able to conclude that there was >>> communication of some description, but only for a fixed duration. >>> =20 >> Very unclear what you are saying. Are these signals related to events = in >> your network? More information will help. >> =20 > > I agree - Not only was my post unclear, but I'm unclear about what I > want too. :-) > > My data, in reality, consists national statistics - and my > self-appointed challenge is to establish if, subject to appropriate > analysis, they will expose undocumented trends or other anomalies. I > don't know what trends or anomalies I want to find until I discover > them... but I suspect that, once found, they'd be interesting. :-) > > =20 >> 'exi octave' reveals: >> =20 > > Octave is a good suggestion - but probably not what I need. I've been > pointed at "R" ( http://www.r-project.org/ ) which looks more hopeful, > though I can't find it in portage. If there were an interactive GUI to > apply standard statistical analyses to data as a front-end to R, then > that would likely be just what I want. Failing that - just finding R > in portage would be a step forwards. > > I'd be very interested to know if R has competition... > =20 R is indeed in portage, you may have not found it due to it being=20 uppercase. Try the following: emerge -pv R # Remember: type 'R' and not 'r' Also, R has commercial alternatives, such as S and S+, but I'm sure you=20 prefer the free version ;-). HTH, Abraham --=20 --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list