Re: [Rd] Compiling R scripts

2005-07-05 Thread Byron Ellis
On Jul 4, 2005, at 6:31 AM, Uzuner, Tolga wrote: > Dear R Developers, > > A recommendation for future development. > > It would help if R scripts could be compiled into an executable, or > a library. Speed is the main issue (I run a large scale monte carlo > in R which is very slow). However,

Re: [Rd] Compiling R scripts

2005-07-04 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Uzuner, Tolga wrote: > Dear R Developers, > It would help if R scripts could be compiled into an executable, or a > library. Are you sure it would help? If you do a big matrix operation in R it runs at the speed of the underlying C code. It wont get much faster. Profile your code, find out wh