<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>Am 08.06.2009 um 01:56 schrieb Steve Núñez:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> <font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Gentlemen,<br> <br> I hope you’ll forgive a question that’s only tangentially related to OpenMCL...<br> <br> I’ve got a project coming up that involves predictive modelling and PMML. This is an area I have been involved with in the past, but am quite rusty. It seems that the ‘state of the art’ is ‘R’. It’s an active, up to date project, with many contributions. In the Lisp side, there’s ‘lisp-stat’, which seems dead.<br> <br> I don’t mind learning ‘R’, but it’s YAL (Yet Another Language — when are we (the industry) going to stop wasting time with this?), but would prefer not to add the learning curve time required to the project.<br> <br> Are there any viable alternatives for doing statistics in Lisp?<br></span></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Funny at least one of the authors of R was/is looking into moving to Common Lisp.</div><div><br></div><div>See the article 'Back to the Future: Lisp as the base for a Statistical Computing System'.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=8Cf16JkKz30C&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21">http://books.google.com/books?id=8Cf16JkKz30C&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also see these talks: <a href="http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/?Talks">http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/?Talks</a></div><div><br></div><div>Here is some 'statistics' code for Common Lisp:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://github.com/blindglobe">http://github.com/blindglobe</a></div><div><br></div><div>Above also hosts a Common Lisp version of the core of 'lisp-stat'.</div><div><br></div><div>The CL Directory links to maths libraries: <a href="http://www.cl-user.net/asp/tags/11071">http://www.cl-user.net/asp/tags/11071</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also see the CLIKI page:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cliki.net/Mathematics">http://www.cliki.net/Mathematics</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Rainer Joswig</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"> <br> Regards,<br> - Steve<br> <br> </span></font><font size="1"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:9pt">-- <br> <span><image.gif></span><br> </span></font><span style="font-size:9pt"><font face="Copperplate Gothic Bold">Level 31<br> 6 Battery Road<br> Singapore 049909<br> <br> Phone: +65 6321 9115<br> Mobile: +65 9679 8360<br> <font color="#0000C0"><u><a href="http://illation.com.sg">http://illation.com.sg</a><br> </u></font></font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><br> </font></span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br> </span></font> </div> _______________________________________________<br>Openmcl-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Openmcl-devel@clozure.com">Openmcl-devel@clozure.com</a><br>http://clozure.com/mailman/listinfo/openmcl-devel<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Rainer Joswig, Hamburg, Germany</div><div><a href="http://lispm.dyndns.org/">http://lispm.dyndns.org/</a></div><div><a href="mailto:joswig@lisp.de">mailto:joswig@lisp.de</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>