>>>>> "RB" == Ralf B <ralf.bie...@gmail.com>
>>>>> on Mon, 5 Jul 2010 02:33:13 -0400 writes:
RB> Hi experts,
RB> currently developing some code that checks a large amount of Strings
RB> for the existence of sub-strings and pattern (detecting sub-strings
RB> within URLs). I wonder if there is information about how well
RB> particular String operations work in R together with comparisons. Are
RB> there recommendations (based on such information) regarding what
RB> operations should be used and what should be avoided? Are there
RB> libraries and functions that provide optimized String operations for
RB> such needs or is R simply not the right choice for that?
Why not?
R itself is nowadays used to build R packages, the need for Perl
basically gone, so why do you assume that R's string operations
are not fast enough for your task at hand?
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