Re: [R] R performance

2010-01-31 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Marc Jekel wrote: > Dear R Fans, > > I was recently asking myself how quick R is in code execution. R can be a million times quicker than C code. Badly written C code. Next question... > I have been > running simulations lately that need quite a time for executi

[R] R performance

2010-01-31 Thread Marc Jekel
Dear R Fans, I was recently asking myself how quick R is in code execution. I have been running simulations lately that need quite a time for execution and I was wondering if it is reasonable at all to do more computational extensive projects with R. Of course, it is possible to compare execu