off-topic question: Latex and R in industries 2005-04-07 - By Donald Ingram
Wensui,
I work for 'A' electronics test equipment corporation.
I have been using R ( since 1.6 ) instead of MATLAB etc. as a general
language for data analysis and graph generation.
On they way to R I tried Python/Scipy, Scilab and others - but R wins
in quality and ease of use (it just needs DSP and GPIB/HPIB libraries
to be perfect ).
LaTeX is also my document tool of choice ..
However LaTeX generated pdfs sent out as reports are much disliked.
MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel are the standards, and very importantly
they offer cut and paste ability across the larger team.
MS's offerings comes no where near to the quality of LaTex / R, but in
world of shared authorship - it's a one sided battle.
My other PC universe vs Unix/OS X problem is vector / Meta-file
graphics - essential for quality reports.
Postscript, PDF and MS products just don't play. The newest Office and
Visio versions seem to be dropping even more of the postscript
import and export filters ( which never work very well anyway ).
I have never met any other colleagues who use LaTeX or R.
Any one else sharing the same experiences ?
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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 11:38:55 -0400
From: Wensui Liu <liuwensui@(protected)>
Subject: [R] off-topic question: Latex and R in industries
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Latex and R are really cool stuff. I am just wondering how they are
used in industry. But based on my own experience, very rare. Why?
How about the opinion of other listers? Thanks.
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