On Monday, April 09, 2007 3:23 PM, someone named Wilfred wrote: > So what's the big deal about S using files instead of memory > like R. I don't get the point. Isn't there enough swap space > for S? (Who cares anyway: it works, isn't it?) Or are there > any problems with S and large datasets? I don't get it. You > use them, Greg. So you might discuss that issue.
S's one-to-one correspondence between S objects and filesystem objects is the single remaining reason I haven't completely converted over to R. With S I can manage my objects via makefiles. Corrections to raw data or changes to analysis scripts get applied to all objects in the project (and there are often thousands of them) by simply typing 'make'. That includes everything right down to the graphics that will go in the report. How do people live without that? --Todd -- Why is 'abbreviation' such a long word? ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
