Hi! Welcome to the R-Project on Solaris site.
What is R?
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment, developed at the Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies). R can be considered as a different implementation of S. R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides an Open Source route to participation in that activity.
What is Solaris?
The Solaris Operating System, usually known simply as Solaris, is a free Unix-based operating system introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1992 as the successor to SunOS. Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, as well for being the origin for many innovative features such as DTrace and ZFS. Solaris supports SPARC-based and x86-based workstations and servers from Sun and other vendors, with efforts underway to port to additional platforms.
What is R?
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment, developed at the Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies). R can be considered as a different implementation of S. R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides an Open Source route to participation in that activity.
What is Solaris?
The Solaris Operating System, usually known simply as Solaris, is a free Unix-based operating system introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1992 as the successor to SunOS. Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, as well for being the origin for many innovative features such as DTrace and ZFS. Solaris supports SPARC-based and x86-based workstations and servers from Sun and other vendors, with efforts underway to port to additional platforms.
Why R-Project on Solaris
Advantages, advantages and simply, advantages.
1. Performance :
Solaris and the R-Project ports have been optimized to work with the SPARC and x64, which gives better perfromance.
2. POSIX compliant environment:
Solaris can be considered to be compliant with the POSIX environment which means a standard programming interface for developers.
Advantages, advantages and simply, advantages.
1. Performance :
Solaris and the R-Project ports have been optimized to work with the SPARC and x64, which gives better perfromance.
2. POSIX compliant environment:
Solaris can be considered to be compliant with the POSIX environment which means a standard programming interface for developers.