On Tuesday 02 October 2007 22:54:48 Matthew Dubins wrote: MD > in what respects do R routines work faster/more efficiently/more MD > accurately than those of MATLAB/SPSS.
There has been a benchmark: http://www.sciviews.org/benchmark/index.html but thats quite old old, it would be interesting to see a new comparison between Matlab and R. As you see Matlab and R are equally fast. SPSS however is something completely different, I expect it to be much slower. cheers ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.