Timeline for What quant-related functionalities is R lacking compared to commercial software like Mathematica and Matlab?
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| Apr 7, 2014 at 12:11 | comment | added | Lisa Ann | You should not compare the help manual of an expensive solution like MATLAB with the open source environment of R, quite a miracle considering results that have been produced standardizing efforts from hundreds of users. I would be really shocked to know that MATLAB support manual was worse than R's one, in that case something'd be really going wrong... for MathWorks. | |
| Apr 5, 2014 at 23:56 | comment | added | uday | would agree with Joshua that R manuals at least these days are better than Stata's. But yes, far behind Matlab's manuals. The key difference is Matlab gives an example for each and every optional variable and parameter while R documentation doesn't. For an advanced user, however, the documentation is least of the worry! | |
| Apr 5, 2014 at 17:38 | comment | added | user2763361 | -1 because the documentation is usually very good and the community is active and expert. | |
| Apr 5, 2014 at 13:26 | history | edited | Aksakal almost surely binary | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 5, 2014 at 7:43 | comment | added | Probilitator | For the larger packages the authors often provide PDF-files that work as a documentation. There are also a lot of books on R for different fields of application | |
| Apr 4, 2014 at 17:27 | comment | added | Joshua Ulrich | That's true. Too bad the help pages don't have examples showing you how to use them... | |
| Apr 4, 2014 at 17:11 | comment | added | Aksakal almost surely binary | R's help is pretty much useless unless you know how the function works already | |
| Apr 4, 2014 at 16:45 | comment | added | Joshua Ulrich | R manuals/documentation are worse than Stata? No way. I was forced to use Stata 11 at a prior employer and the manuals and help pages were absolutely atrocious. The documentation that ships with base R is generally very good. The same can't be said for all 5000+ packages on CRAN, but at least you have the source code to inspect. You don't have that with Stata, SAS, Matlab, or OxMetrics. | |
| Apr 4, 2014 at 15:31 | history | answered | Aksakal almost surely binary | CC BY-SA 3.0 |