On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:49:29 -0400 Juliet Hannah <juliet.han...@gmail.com> wrote:
JH> I've been working with R for a couple of years, and I've JH> been able to get most of the things done that I needed (sometimes in JH> a roundabout way). A few experienced statisticians told me that JH> R is best for interactive data analysis, but for large-scale JH> computations, one needs something else. Depends on what is meant by large-scale computations and you yourself intend to do. I know of people doing optimization stuff which needs a lot of computational power. They use Matlab since it is easy for them to use multiple processors (+multiple pc's). R at the moment only uses one processor and also does not yet (there is a project working on it) something like just in time compilation which appears to be in Matlab. However R is for free and flexible so there are ways to deal with some analysis that need more computational power. my 2c Stefan ______________________________________________ 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.
