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Post by trbixler on Nov 29, 2009 20:59:13 GMT
If it was me I would run R with a PostgreSQL database. While I write a lot in PostgreSQL I have never used R as the things that I do do not require it. But R is the primary tool of Steve McIntyre and that is good enough for me. PostgreSQL is very powerful and allows the user to write there own extensions. I will note that it would take some design on the database side but that is a requirement in any case. For the R extension I found this ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=613149This would give a world class database with top notch statistics.
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Post by aj1983 on Nov 30, 2009 0:12:29 GMT
I use Python (Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib, etc etc) for my scientific analysis of Dual Doppler polarimetric radar data and LMA lightning data. It is very nice, and free!! www.python.orgMy dad also uses R for his research, and he really likes that.
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Post by socold on Nov 30, 2009 1:55:52 GMT
COBOL
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Post by Ratty on Nov 30, 2009 2:15:10 GMT
COBOL Funny BUSINESS?
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Post by sigurdur on Nov 30, 2009 3:14:41 GMT
COBOL Funny BUSINESS? Ratty: COBOL is another code . Fortan.....Cobol....amongst many others now.
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Post by spaceman on Nov 30, 2009 5:11:22 GMT
cobol is for" business". Fortran is for math and science.
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Post by Ratty on Nov 30, 2009 6:18:11 GMT
"Funny BUSINESS" was a weak attempt at humnour ... <sigh> COBOL = COmmon Business-Oriented Language en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOLConfession: I'm a broken down (not COBOL) programmer.
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Post by Purinoli on Nov 30, 2009 13:43:05 GMT
Wow, he'll be able to tell his arse from his elbow soon. "Unusually warm and cold periods in Earth's pre-industrial climate history are linked to how the oceans responded to temperature changes, say scientists." "We reconstructed patterns of [the Earth's] surface temperature during those two intervals," explained Professor Michael Mann from Pennsylvania State University in the US, who led the study." Ah, thank you, Professor Mann, it was nature all along then. Oh, well, here's your pink slip, don't get your head get caught in the door on your way down to the unemployment office. This is disinfo designed to get the La Nina meme out there, they know Svensmark is right and are hoping to explain next year's temperature drop and praying Sol wakes up to save them. OMG, is he, is he actually saying that Global Warming causes Global Cooling? He's lost the plot. I read Mann's article and made me loughing and reminded me what my father ( an old "climatologist" without scientific background on this field of science) said long time ago when I said "oh, it's raining outside" and he replied : " yes, son, in such weather it is allways raining...". All this "AGW science" became a mess of confusing causal principle. Even for famouse Q egg or chicken we know from biology and genetics what was first. If guys like Mann, Schneider, Jones....would work in my Co, they would be happy if they earn for a meal. Just in case they would clean my labs well. Best regards from Slovenia
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Post by gahooduk on Nov 30, 2009 22:47:41 GMT
Ratty: COBOL is another code . Fortan.....Cobol....amongst many others now. Fortan..why whats wrong with ALGOL60, it was much better than ALGOL58 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOLyep .so old i remeber when Computers had valves and 1+1 = 1.99999999999
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Post by Ratty on Dec 1, 2009 0:01:10 GMT
[Snip] yep .so old i remeber when Computers had valves and 1+1 = 1.99999999999 Surely NOBODY is that old! However, I do remember we ran our business on an NCR2950 for several years with an application called "GASS" (General Accounting for Service Stations). It was a complete POS system incl. integrated general ledger on two eight inch (I think) floppies and 256Kb memory. Programs on one floppy, data on the other. When we backed up, we had to leave the room because of the "clunk clunk" noise. Ah, the good old days .......
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