Re: [Rd] Eigenvalue calculation of sparse matrices

2012-03-10 Thread Kjetil Halvorsen
Hola! This can be done with the CRAN package igraph, which contains (part of) the arpack library for computing only some eigenvalues/eigenvectors of sparse matrices. arpack gives you the option of computing a few of the smallest or a few of the largest eigenvalues/vectors. You will need yourself

Re: [Rd] Task View on Numerical Analysis and Differential Equations

2012-03-10 Thread Achim Zeileis
Hans, thanks for the suggestion and sorry for coming so late to the thread. I have only a little to add to Ravi's comments. I like the idea overall. Nothing prevents you from doing this, but you should be committed to getting it up and running and then keeping it updated. Yes completely d

Re: [Rd] On R performance

2012-03-10 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Justin Talbot wrote: >> >> Isn't R much like Lisp under the covers? Afterall, it evolved from Scheme. >> Hasn't there been a great deal of work done on optimizing Lisp over the >> last 30 years? This suggests that instead of dropping the R/S semantics >> and moving

Re: [Rd] On R performance

2012-03-10 Thread Justin Talbot
> > Isn't R much like Lisp under the covers? Afterall, it evolved from Scheme. > Hasn't there been a great deal of work done on optimizing Lisp over the > last 30 years? This suggests that instead of dropping the R/S semantics > and moving to another language like Julia, the proposals of Ross Ihaka

[Rd] Eigenvalue calculation of sparse matrices

2012-03-10 Thread Holger Diedrich
Dear all, I am currently working on the calculation of eigenvalues (and -vectors) of large matrices. Since these are mostly sparse matrices and I remember some specific functionalities in MATLAB for sparse matrices, I started a research how to optimize the calculation of eigenvalues of a spars

Re: [Rd] On R performance

2012-03-10 Thread Justin Talbot
> > On 8 March 2012 at 11:06, Justin Talbot wrote: > | I've been working on an R performance academic project for the last > | couple years which has involved writing an interpreter for R from > | scratch and a JIT for R vector operations. > > Cool.  I think John mention that once or twice and I pr