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Re: science-imageanalysis (Was: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition)



Chris Walker <chrisw@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Chris Walker wrote:
> > 
> > > I don't feel the description fully captures what I want it to say, so
> > > suggestions for improvement appreciated. The name is not set in stone
> > > either.
> > 
> > Looks good.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I chose "Numerical computation" - with the intent of including
> packages that fill the same space as Matlab and IDL. This is a clear,
> distinct group, large enough to merit it. There may still be scope for
> a "Data Analysis" task which could reference this one.

And I have now added r-base-core to the list. Its description says: "S
is the statistician's Matlab and R is to S what Octave is to Matlab."

Chris


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