On 19/06/2008, at 2:38 AM, diver495 wrote:
I ran the simple script bellow and received shoking
Your spelling is pretty shoking too.
results. It was complied
for about 15 seconds !!! on modern Intel Core Duo computer.
i=0;
while(i<5000000)
{
i=i+1;
}
Using Visual Basic I can complete the same script (simple loop of
5000000
itterations) in 0.1 sec.
Is it realy R not suitable for huge computing.
It helps to know what the <expletive deleted> you're doing. E.g.:
> x <- rep(1,5e6)
> system.time(sum(x))
user system elapsed
0.014 0.000 0.014
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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