[Rd] Fast Kendall's Tau

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 26/06/2012 22:44, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 12-06-25 2:48 PM, Adler, Avraham wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Has any further action been taken regarding implementing David
>> Simcha's fast Kendall tau code (now found in the package pcaPP as
>> cor.fk) into R-base? It is literally hundreds of times faster,
>> although I am uncertain as to whether he wrote code for testing the
>> significance of the parameter. The last mention I have seen of this
>> was in
>> 2010<https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2010-February/056745.html>.
>
> You could check the NEWS file, but I don't remember anything being done
> along these lines.  If the code is in a CRAN package, there doesn't seem
> to be any need to move it to base R.

In addition, this is something very specialized, and the code in R is 
fast enough for all but the most unusual instances of that specialized 
task.  example(cor.fk) shows the R implementation takes well under a 
second for 2000 cases (a far higher value than is usual).

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