[R] Spedd: R vs S-plus

[Philippe Grosjean]

You will find a speed comparison of S-PLUS and R, but also Matlab, Octave,
Scilab, Ox and O-Matrix under Windows at
http://www.sciviews.org/other/benchmark.htm. It seems that, at least under
Windows your impressions are confirmed. Also, I measured that R is a little
bit faster under Linux Mandrake 9 on the same computer. So, comparing S-PLUS
under Windows with R under Linux could be even better in favor of R.
However, I do not draw conclusions about Linux version of S-PLUS because I
never tried it.
Best,

Philippe

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From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Ted Harding
Sent: vendredi 20 juin 2003 3:22
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] Spedd: R vs S-plus


Hi Folks,

Sorry to raise what has probably been discussed before,
but I an repeatedly struck by the comparative slowness
of S-plus for Windows compared with R for Linux when doing
much the same thing.

I don't have a direct comparison, because they're not
running on the same machine; but machine W has a faster
CPU and more RAM than machine L, yet S-plus on W seems
to take longer by quite a big factor (of the order of 5x)
than R on L.

My instincts say that "WIndows" is probably a significant
factor in the comnparison, but still ...

Ideally, to compare R with S-plus, one should look at them
both on the same OS (Unix or Windows) on the same machine.

Can anyone give me clean comparative speeds?

With thanks,
Ted.


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