[R] Spedd: R vs S-plus

[(Ted Harding)]

Hi Folks,

Sorry to raise what has probably been discussed before,
but I an repeatedly struck by the comparative slowness
of S-plus for Windows compared with R for Linux when doing
much the same thing.

I don't have a direct comparison, because they're not
running on the same machine; but machine W has a faster
CPU and more RAM than machine L, yet S-plus on W seems
to take longer by quite a big factor (of the order of 5x)
than R on L.

My instincts say that "WIndows" is probably a significant
factor in the comnparison, but still ...

Ideally, to compare R with S-plus, one should look at them
both on the same OS (Unix or Windows) on the same machine.

Can anyone give me clean comparative speeds?

With thanks,
Ted.


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Date: 20-Jun-03                                       Time: 14:22:02
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