On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Sheftel, Ryan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am looking for a comparison of the performance speed between xts and > zoo on time series. I remember once seeing this in a pdf document, > perhaps a magazine article?, but after extensive google-ing I have come > up blank. > > Any direction would be helpful before I reproduce the results myself. > Thanks. >
At this point in time xts is mostly written in C while zoo is mostly written in R so xts should be substantially faster. There is an objective of merging the backends of xts and zoo at which point they should run at about the same speed. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions should go.
