On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 06:13:04PM -0400, Mike Marchywka wrote: > I guess it wouldn't be too far a field to discuss benefits > of data stucture exploration in R vs cpp or java- Especially > for something like this where you may want to time it in a multithreaded > setting- you can always instrument something like that, collect lots > of monte carlo results, and then import the statistical data into R > for analysis I would think.
This is fairly common--do your data collection in another language, then analyze it in R. R has nice interfaces to other languages, e.g. Python and C, so you can do this directly rather than writing to a file in one language and then reading it from R. For a multithreaded setting, see the various approaches that have been developed, at http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/HighPerformanceComputing.html However, in my opinion, these work well only for "embarrassingly parallel" applications. For the other apps, probably including yours, you may need to go to C. Norm ______________________________________________ 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.
