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Re: calling all "R Statistical Package" gurus

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
In terms of code simplicity (using tested and stable publicly available supported free libraries) I would rank R at the top of the list (for this particular problem), tied for first place with Python. In second place is AMPL. Matlab/Octave is a distant third.
Is the difference just with how easy it is to write the code / input the data, or do they do the calculations differently? If the latter is true, would different CAS programs fall into a few different groups, or would they all do the calculations differently?