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Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Juni 2004 20:21
An: 'Barry Rowlingson'; R-help
Betreff: RE: [R] anti-R vitriol
From: Barry Rowlingson
A colleague is receiving some data from another person. That person
reads the data in SAS and it takes 30s and uses 64k RAM.
That person
then tries
I am curious. What were the dimensions of this data set? Did this
person know use read.table(), or scan(). Did they know about the
possibility of reading the data one part at a time?
The way that SAS processes the data row by row limits what can be done.
It is often possible with scant
A colleague is receiving some data from another person. That person
reads the data in SAS and it takes 30s and uses 64k RAM. That person
then tries to read the data in R and it takes 10 minutes and uses a
gigabyte of RAM. Person then goes on to say:
It's not that I think SAS is such great
My reaction, as a mere individual user: Of course, one cannot have any idea
what's really going on, so a rational reply to the rant is impossible. But, as
this list repeatedly demonstrates (and as we all have probably experienced), it
is possible to do things foolishly in any software.
Worth
I'm not too concerned about your colleague's view about R. S/He
doesn' have to like it, and I don't think anyone actually believes
that R is designed to make *everyone* happy. For me, R does about 99%
of the things I need to do, but sadly, when I need to order a pizza, I
still have to pick
From: Barry Rowlingson
A colleague is receiving some data from another person. That person
reads the data in SAS and it takes 30s and uses 64k RAM. That person
then tries to read the data in R and it takes 10 minutes and uses a
gigabyte of RAM. Person then goes on to say:
It's not
Barry Rowlingson B.Rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk writes:
: A colleague is receiving some data from another person. That person
: reads the data in SAS and it takes 30s and uses 64k RAM. That person
: then tries to read the data in R and it takes 10 minutes and uses a
: gigabyte of RAM. Person
Roger D. Peng wrote:
I'm not too concerned about your colleague's view about R. S/He doesn'
have to like it, and I don't think anyone actually believes that R is
designed to make *everyone* happy. For me, R does about 99% of the
things I need to do, but sadly, when I need to order a pizza, I
Dang! You're making me hungry!
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Douglas Bates wrote:
Roger D. Peng wrote:
I'm not too concerned about your colleague's view about R. S/He doesn'
have to like it, and I don't think anyone actually believes that R is
designed to make *everyone* happy. For me, R does about 99% of the
things I
Barry Rowlingson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's not that I think SAS is such great software,
it's not. But I really hate badly designed
software. R is designed by committee. Worse,
it's designed by a committee of statisticians.
They tend to confuse numerical analysis with
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