Just to bore everyone but Simon and me to tears, here is 'fair' timing2.sh
variant using an r version that does not autoload().
e...@ron:/tmp$ ./timing3.sh
--- our r calling summary() 20 times
real0m3.375s
user0m3.100s
sys 0m0.268s
--- GNU R's Rscript calling summary() 20 times
r
Hi Simon,
On 13 January 2009 at 12:36, Simon Urbanek wrote:
| Oh, well, now that the post count is growing I guess I have to
| respond ;).
|
| On Jan 11, 2009, at 15:50 , Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
|
| >
| > On 11 January 2009 at 20:18, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
| > | Those of you tracking R dev
Oh, well, now that the post count is growing I guess I have to
respond ;).
On Jan 11, 2009, at 15:50 , Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 11 January 2009 at 20:18, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
| Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are
| moving towards using R as a scripting en
On 1/13/2009 4:33 AM, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote:
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 11 January 2009 at 20:18, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
| Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are
| moving towards using R as a scripting engine.
[...]
| Reasons:
|
| - it is platform-independent a
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 11 January 2009 at 20:18, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> | Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are
> | moving towards using R as a scripting engine.
> [...]
> | Reasons:
> |
> | - it is platform-independent and needs no other tools installed.
>
On 11 January 2009 at 20:18, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
| Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are
| moving towards using R as a scripting engine.
[...]
| Reasons:
|
| - it is platform-independent and needs no other tools installed.
[...]
| - it is fast.
[...]
Indeed. I
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
wrote:
> Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are moving
> towards using R as a scripting engine. (It is often overlooked as such.)
...
> In due course we see phasing out the use of Perl, at least at run time (and
> that
Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are
moving towards using R as a scripting engine. (It is often overlooked
as such.) Thus far INSTALL, REMOVE, SHLIB and massage-examples have
been moved to R.
Reasons:
- it is platform-independent and needs no other tools install
