Re: [R] R vs SAS and Revolution R

2010-06-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
because there was not enough time for the planned integration). Josh -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of skan Sent: 19 June 2010 19:10 To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] R vs SAS and Revolution R Hello How do

Re: [R] R vs SAS and Revolution R

2010-06-19 Thread Tal Galili
Regarding R and REvolution, there was a post published recently comparing the two: http://www.r-bloggers.com/comparing-standard-r-with-revoutions-for-performance/ Regarding the rest, I don't know... Tal Contact Details:--- Cont

Re: [R] R vs SAS and Revolution R

2010-06-19 Thread Joshua Wiley
To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] R vs SAS and Revolution R > > > Hello > > How do you compare R to SAS in terms of speed and management of large > datasets? > > What about Revolution R? > I've seen on their site, they claim that Revolution R is much faster t

Re: [R] R vs SAS and Revolution R

2010-06-19 Thread Bogaso Christofer
: [R] R vs SAS and Revolution R Hello How do you compare R to SAS in terms of speed and management of large datasets? What about Revolution R? I've seen on their site, they claim that Revolution R is much faster than R and it's multithread... Can you really notice the differe

Re: [R] R vs SAS and Revolution R

2010-06-19 Thread Wensui Liu
it really depends on how you define "large dataset". In a corporate production environment, it is not unusual to do data manipulation for x-G dataset. In this case, SAS might be preferred from my personal experience. On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:39 AM, skan wrote: > > Hello > > How do you compare R

[R] R vs SAS and Revolution R

2010-06-19 Thread skan
Hello How do you compare R to SAS in terms of speed and management of large datasets? What about Revolution R? I've seen on their site, they claim that Revolution R is much faster than R and it's multithread... Can you really notice the difference?. What dissadvantage does it have? I think it's