| Angel Pizarro on 23 Jul 2007 01:50:39 -0000 |
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Ahh, stats ... A topic I deal with often but not often enough to really learn it down pat. You can get a pretty basic understanding of stats from wikipedia and the public library. If you need to buy a book, then buy a used one, as the basics that programmers need is not cutting edge science, anything from the 1970s on will do. Ruby has a great library RSRuby for the hooking into the R stats package (based on Rpy for python I think) You can call any R function in a ruby script. See here: http://web.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~alexg/rsruby/ You need to have R installed either through macports/fink or the OS X GUI. The project has a decent manual (for an OS project) with examples. This does not cover R itself and actually assumes you know what you are doing with R. Since R and Ruby are such different languages, I tend to write my R routines in R, then call those finished product from ruby. For instance I parse a XML file and get arrays of floats out of the file in Ruby, but then switch to R routines for processing and plotting. I am by no means doing fancy stats with it, but it is useful and can give a talk at the PoR group meetings if there is enough interest. -angel On 7/22/07, Randy Schmidt <randy@umlatte.com
> wrote: Ok, I've heard Toby talk about statistics for two whole Philly _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: http://lists.phillyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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