Try R. :)

http://www.r-project.org/

Eric

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Jacob Keller <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> since this probably comes up a lot in manipulation of pdb/reflection files
> and so on, I was curious what people thought would be the best language for
> the following: I have some huge (100s MB) tables of tab-delimited data on
> which I would like to do some math (averaging, sigmas, simple arithmetic,
> etc) as well as some sorting and rejecting. It can be done in Excel, but
> this is exceedingly slow even in 64-bit, so I am looking to do it through
> some scripting. Just as an example, a "sort" which takes >10 min in Excel
> takes ~10 sec max with the unix command sort (seems crazy, no?). Any
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks, and sorry for being off-topic,
>
> Jacob
>
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> Medical Scientist Training Program
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