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What justification is there for preferring R to Matlab, other than cost?

My impression is that the primary problem domains for these two are pretty different.

Matlab is pretty heavily targeted at folks doing numerical analysis [1], e.g. solving differential equations related to physics/engineering/economics, and has its origins as a wrapper around existing fortran implementations for numerical linear algebra. Engineers, especially, use Matlab all over the place.

The R project explicitly is interested with statistics [2], and as someone earlier pointed out, make is pretty easy to do analysis on a dataset. Though, I have pretty limited experience with R, so I could be mistaken.

[1] Cleve Moler. Numerical Computing with MATLAB. http://www.mathworks.com/moler/chapters.html This is the guy who wrote the first Matlab implementations, and founded Mathworks.

[2] The R Project for Statistical Computing. http://www.r-project.org/

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Applied mathematician with a deep affection for coding and geophysics. This past May I wrapped up my M.S. in math; my thesis focused on developing and solving a mathematical problem in glaciology (thesis: http://www.lygi.me/thesis.pdf); my coursework and research focused on numerical analysis and PDE's. I'm looking for interesting problems where I can leverage my math background; bonus points if the phrases "free-boundary problem" or "variational inequality" come up.

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Location: Columbus, OH

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Python, Numpy/Scipy/Matplotlib, Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Physics, LaTeX, git

Learning: Javascript/Node.js, SQL, Julia

Email: l@lygi.me

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lymgill

Applied mathematician with a deep affection for coding and geophysics. This past May I wrapped up my M.S. in math; my thesis focused on developing and solving a mathematical problem in glaciology (thesis: http://www.lygi.me/thesis.pdf); my coursework and research focused on numerical analysis and PDE's. Looking for interesting problems where I can leverage my math background, bonus points if the phrase "free-boundary problem" comes up.