Because Fortan is a complied language, as opposed to R which is an interpreter, Fortran is orders of magnitude faster than R Because R is a high level programming language developed for statistical analyses, for many problems it is much easier, and faster, to program statistical analyses wtih R than Fortran. John
John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) >>> Paul Simonin <paul.simo...@uvm.edu> 9/23/2009 11:13 AM >>> Hello R users, I have a basic "computer programing" question. I am a student currently taking a course that uses Fortran as the main programming language, but the instructors are open to students using any language they are familiar with. I have used R previously, and am wondering if there is any benefit to my learning Fortran, or whether I should stick with R for this class. Any advice? Are there clear benefits to using Fortran, or things Fortran can do that R cannot? Thank you very much for any thoughts! Sincerely, Paul S. ______________________________________________ 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. Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for th...{{dropped:6}} ______________________________________________ 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.
