R is really good at creating statistical models from
your data. It works interactively and as a programming
languate. It can create decent graphs, which is
helpful for interactive model-building.
Typical models in R include linear,
generalized linear, generalized additive, local
regression, tree-based, and nonlinear. A good
book on this is Statistical Models in S by
Chambers and Hastie.
I have used it for stock analysis and for web log
file analysis. It is not particularly fast, so you
would benefit from performing data reduction
on your dataset before handing it off to R.
It should work perfectly the first time! - toma | [reply] |