[R] Translating R code + library into Fortran?

2006-09-11 Thread Mike Lawrence
Hi all, I'm running a monte carlo test of a neural network tool I've developed, and it looks like it's going to take a very long time if I run it in R so I'm interested in translating my code (included below) into something faster like Fortran (which I'll have to learn from scratch). However,

Re: [R] Translating R code + library into Fortran?

2006-09-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
As nnet is done almost entirely in compiled C, you may well find that already most of the computation is in a compiled language. Please look at `Writing R Extensions' and profile your code to find the bottlenecks. While you are looking at that manual, please also consider the section on

Re: [R] Translating R code + library into Fortran?

2006-09-11 Thread Paul Gilbert
I have the impression (after only a quick glance at your code, so I may have missed something) that you are generating multiple datasets and then using them. As a general strategy this does not work very well. You will get slightly improved performance with compiled code, but the real problem