Re: [R] R and Fortran 9x -- advice

2006-11-13 Thread Mike Prager
Tamas K Papp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found some bottlenecks in my R code with Rprof. First I wanted to rewrite them in C, but a colleague keeps suggesting that I learn Fortran, so maybe this is the time to do it... 1) I hear bad things about Fortran. Sure, F77 looks archaic, but

Re: [R] R and Fortran 9x -- advice

2006-11-13 Thread Christos Hatzis
www.nuverabio.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Prager Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 1:00 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] R and Fortran 9x -- advice Tamas K Papp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found some bottlenecks

Re: [R] R and Fortran 9x -- advice

2006-11-13 Thread Ravi Varadhan
] On Behalf Of Christos Hatzis Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 2:05 PM To: 'Mike Prager'; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] R and Fortran 9x -- advice Mike, Can you recommend any good books on Fortran 90/95? I had been an old user of Fortran 77 but haven't followed the developments

Re: [R] R and Fortran 9x -- advice

2006-11-13 Thread Mike Prager
Christos Hatzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you recommend any good books on Fortran 90/95? I had been an old user of Fortran 77 but haven't followed the developments in the last 15 years or so... Ravi Varadhan has already recommended Metcalf and Reid - Fortran 90/95 Explained. I own and

[R] R and Fortran 9x -- advice

2006-11-09 Thread Tamas K Papp
Hi, I found some bottlenecks in my R code with Rprof. First I wanted to rewrite them in C, but a colleague keeps suggesting that I learn Fortran, so maybe this is the time to do it... I like to learn new languages and do it fairly quickly. I would appreciate the advice of others about these

Re: [R] R and Fortran 9x -- advice

2006-11-09 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Tamas K Papp wrote: Hi, I found some bottlenecks in my R code with Rprof. First I wanted to rewrite them in C, but a colleague keeps suggesting that I learn Fortran, so maybe this is the time to do it... I like to learn new languages and do it fairly quickly. I would