Re: Unintended consequences - things to think about

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On 11/13/14 20:38, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>> And THAT I think is the wrong direction. If
>> >somebody wants R, why would they use gnuplot?

> Because they find it easier to make nice plots?

I did try using R at one stage and had to dump the result out to a text 
file and use gnuplot to get what I wanted. So I agree with Ethan on that 
one.

Then I found that R has a habit of changing your data to what it 
"thinks" you wanted it be. Bizarrely, I ended up with more data points 
than I started with.

I did not bother working out exactly where it got the extra data from to 
insert because I prefer to spend time working on my own code rather 
than double checking my data at every step to ensure that the "language" 
I'm using has not decided change it for me.

I don't want a programming language screwing around any more that I want 
my girlfriend screwing around. In fact, I may have more tolerance for 
the latter.

Plus the documentation is terse and incomplete half the time so I never 
really know even what  it is supposed to be doing.



YMMV.