Aside from optiming your code by making use of R functions that use C underneath as much as possible the big difference between R and Matlab is Matlab's just-in-time compilation of code. When that was introduced in Matlab huge speedups of Matlab programs were noticeable.
For R, there is a new package on CRAN, jit, that aims to provide similar speedups. On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Zhandong Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am switching from Matlab to R, but I found that R is 200 times slower than > matlab. > > Since I am newbie to R, I must be missing some important programming tips. > > Please help me out on this. > > Here is the function: > ## make the full pair-wise permutation of a vector > ## input_fc=c(1,2,3); > ## output_fc=( > 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 > 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 > ); > > grw_permute = function(input_fc){ > > fc_vector = input_fc > > index = 1 > > k = length(fc_vector) > > fc_matrix = matrix(0,2,k^2) > > for(i in 1:k){ > > for(j in 1:k){ > > fc_matrix[index] = fc_vector[i] > > fc_matrix[index+1] = fc_vector[j] > > index = index+2 > > } > > } > > return(fc_matrix) > > } > > For an input vector of size 300. It took R 2.17 seconds to run. > > But the same code in matlab only needs 0.01 seconds to run. > > Am I missing sth in R.. Is there a away to optimize. ??? > > Thanks > > -- > Zhandong Liu > > Genomics and Computational Biology > University of Pennsylvania > > 616 BRB II/III, 421 Curie Boulevard > University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine > Philadelphia, PA 19104-6160 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.