[Rd] Master's project to coerce linux nvidia drivers to run generalised linear models

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 1/24/06, Douglas Bates <dmbates at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/23/06, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wonder if it would make more sense to get a relatively
> > low level package to run on it so that all packages that
> > used that low level package would benefit.  The Matrix
> > package and the functions runmean and sum.exact in
> > package caTools are some things that come to mind.
> > Others may have other ideas along these lines.
>
> Martin and I are delighted to learn that the Matrix package is a
> "relatively low-level" package :-)
>
> We were of the opinion that the amount of code and design work that
> went into it made it a little more sophisticated than that.

Low level refers to a package that is typically used by other routines
rather than used directly although, of course, it could be.

This was not intended to be a comment on the breadth, sophistication
or internal complexity of the package.