It's been a long time since I used Fortran, and I have only dabbled in F#, but I do not think translating Fortran (or R) to F# will be easy. F# is basicly a functional language (like ML) and a very differant mind set than Fortran (or R).
-EdK Ed Keith e_...@yahoo.com Blog: edkeith.blogspot.com --- On Thu, 7/8/10, rkevinbur...@charter.net <rkevinbur...@charter.net> wrote: > From: rkevinbur...@charter.net <rkevinbur...@charter.net> > Subject: Re: [R] F# vs. R > To: r-help@r-project.org, "Patrick Burns" <pbu...@pburns.seanet.com>, > serg...@gmail.com > Date: Thursday, July 8, 2010, 10:16 AM > True, porting old C and Fortran code > to C# or F# would be a pain and probably riddled with errors > but it is not too soon to start looking to see if there is a > better way. There have been numerous ports of LAPACK, BLAS, > etc. to C#. Maybe they could be leveraged. > > Maybe just allowing packages to be wrtten in C# or F# would > be helpful. And remember there is Mono. > > Just my 2 cents. > > ---- Patrick Burns <pbu...@pburns.seanet.com> > wrote: > > I'd like to hear answers to this as well. > > A language doesn't have to be a complete > > replacement to be useful. > > > > F# seems to have some nice features. > > > > Pat > > > > On 07/07/2010 17:54, Sergey Goriatchev wrote: > > > Hello, Marc > > > > > > No, I do not want to validate Cox PH. :-) > > > I do use R daily, though right now I do not use > the statistical part that much. > > > > > > I just generally wonder if any R-user tried F# > and his/her opinions. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Sergey > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 17:56, Marc Schwartz<marc_schwa...@me.com> > wrote: > > >> On Jul 7, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Sergey > Goriatchev wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hello, everyone > > >>> > > >>> F# is now public. Compiled code should > run faster than R. > > >>> > > >>> Anyone has opinion on F# vs. R? Just > curious > > >>> > > >>> Best, > > >>> S > > >> > > >> > > >> The key time critical parts of R are written > in compiled C and FORTRAN. > > >> > > >> Of course, if you want to take the time to > code and validate a Cox PH or mixed effects model in F# and > then run them against R's coxph() or lme()/lmer() functions > to test the timing, feel free... :-) > > >> > > >> So unless there is a pre-existing library of > statistical and related functionality for F#, perhaps you > need to reconsider your query. > > >> > > >> Regards, > > >> > > >> Marc Schwartz > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Patrick Burns > > pbu...@pburns.seanet.com > > http://www.burns-stat.com > > (home of 'Some hints for the R beginner' > > and 'The R Inferno') > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
