Question

I have a bunch of text files with tab delimited data, like so

X    Y    Z
1    2    Q
K    4    2

I want to examine these for certain properties, and then modify them in different ways depending on the result, eventually creating new text files with information added and/or deleted.

Now, according to my own investigations, both R and Octave could probably do this. Should I prefer one of them over the other for this task?

Answer 1

Without saying what you want to do for analysis it’s impossible to tell. If you need to do a logistic regression on each one in order to add the residuals then R is your best bet. Octave might be better for other things (maybe most simple things).