xlispstat
Luke Tierney's Xlispstat statistical environment (by jhbadger)
diptest
:exclamation: This is a read-only mirror of the CRAN R package repository. diptest — Hartigan's Dip Test Statistic for Unimodality - Corrected. Homepage: https://github.com/mmaechler/diptest Report bugs for this package: https://github.com/mmaechler/diptest/issues (by cran)
| xlispstat | diptest | |
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| 2 | 1 | |
| 16 | 3 | |
| - | - | |
| 10.0 | 3.4 | |
| over 8 years ago | 22 days ago | |
| C | R | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | - |
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xlispstat
Posts with mentions or reviews of xlispstat.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-06.
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A Quick Introduction to R
On the other hand, if it were lispiness that was the issue, surely xlispstat would be the winner. I love xlispstat. I used it in grad school in the 1990s and even maintain the github repository https://github.com/jhbadger/xlispstat . But the fact is xlispstat never appealed to the general statistical community and R did.
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Ask HN: Would prog. language look like if that was designed by no-programmer
I was a huge fan of xlispstat in the 1990s (which I've archived on Github at (https://github.com/jhbadger/xlispstat), but the simple fact is that the majority of the statistics community just didn't like Lisp-like languages, and not only xlispstat, but newer projects like Incanter (statistics for Clojure) have pretty much failed as well. R meets its need far better than a Scheme library that nobody would have used. It's yet another example of "worse is better".
diptest
Posts with mentions or reviews of diptest.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-06.
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A Quick Introduction to R
In practice the difference is almost non-existent, unless you start doing assignments within function calls, which is a popular style among some R stars, like Martin Machler [1]. But on the other hand some huge names in R resolve to just always use "=" everywhere, including one of R's creators - Ross Ihaka [2].
And anyhow - explaining the difference at that part of the tutorial is not that easy, so I chose to omit it for the time being. But might introduce it later, along with "<<-" and "->>", probably after describing closures.
[1]: https://github.com/cran/diptest/blob/master/R/dipTest.R#L37
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88TftllIjaY&t=2101s
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xlispstat and diptest you can also consider the following projects:
tutorial_r_introductio
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