One thing that Linux makes trivially easy is to interpolate R with C++ through the Rcpp package. The GCC compiler collection is part of all mainstream Linux distro. This is, however, not the case with Windows: you may be able to do it eventually (not sure about this point), but it takes quite some tweaks...
Shige On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Brigid Mooney <bkmoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not trying to start a Windows vs. Linux debate, but I've been > using R on a Windows machine for a while, and was recently wondering > if R's performance would be faster on a Linux machine. And similarly, > if any incremental increase in processing speed would be worth the > time it would take me to migrate my entire system to Linux (including > a database that I access via an R package.) > > I don't know how much it matters what R is doing - but I've got R > pulling a large amount data from a database, performing many complex > computations on that data, and then writing output data to a database. > > Thanks so much for the input, > Brigid > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
