Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On 11 January 2009 at 20:18, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > | Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are > | moving towards using R as a scripting engine. > [...] > | Reasons: > | > | - it is platform-independent and needs no other tools installed. > [...] > | - it is fast. > [...] > > Indeed. I really like working with r scripts. > > And littler by Horner and Eddelbuettel is faster than Rscript -- see eg the > scripts tests/timing.sh and tests/timing2.sh in the SVN archive / littler > tarballs (and the results below for illustration). > > We should still appreciate it you could finally acknowledge existence of > littler it in the R / Rscript documentation. You are not doing users any > service by pretending it doesn't exist. > >
will anyone ever bother to answer? is silence to be taken as acknowledgement, or rather a7e? vQ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
