Hi all, Reading the wikipedia page on R, I stumbled across the following: http://fluff.info/blog/arch/00000172.htm
It does seem interesting that the C execution is that much slower from R than from a native C program. Could any of the more technically knowledgeable people explain why this is so? The author also have some thought-provoking opinions on R being no-good and that you should write everything in C instead (mainly because R is slow and too good at graphics, encouraging data snooping). See http://fluff.info/blog/arch/00000041.htm While I don't agree (granted, I can't really write C), it was interesting to read something from a very different perspective than I'm used to. Best regards, Gustaf _____ Department of Epidemiology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control work email: gustaf.rydevik at smi dot ki dot se skype:gustaf_rydevik ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
