[R] when can we expect Prof Tierney's compiled R?

[Jason Liao]

Dear Prof. Tierney,

Thank for very much for replying and we all appreciate what you have
done for the R community. Currently I have been spoiled by R. I would
love to be 100% R.

I talked to Andy Liaw yesterday about how to make R faster. Maybe we
need to explicitly declare variables in the critical part of R code
that intends to be compiled. This is still a much better solution than
going to C or Fortran. The new Stata 9 has a matrix language which they
claim to be as fast as C. It requires explicit variable declaration.

Jason
 
--- Luke Tierney <luke at stat.uiowa.edu> wrote:
> I hope to be making some substantial progress on this over summer.
> But I would not hold up any projects in anticipation of major R
> changes--the current recommended strategy of first writing something
> that is correct, profiling to find out where a performance problem is
> if there is one, and then (maybe) optimizing by rewriting R code or
> coding core bits in C or Fortran is likely to remain the best
> strategy
> for a long time to come.
> 
> Best,
> 
> luke
> 
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> 
> > Do you mean the byte code compiler?  You can find it at:
> > http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/compiler/
> >
> > Andy
> >
> >> From: Jason Liao
> >>
> >> I am excited to learn that Prof. Tierney is bringing to us
> compiled R.
> >> I would like to learn when it will be available. This information
> will
> >> be useful in scheduling some of my projects. Thanks.
> >>
> >> Jason
> >>
> >>
> >> Jason Liao, http://www.geocities.com/jg_liao
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Jason Liao, http://www.geocities.com/jg_liao
Dept. of Biostatistics, http://www2.umdnj.edu/bmtrxweb
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
683 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway‚ NJ 08854
phone 732-235-5429, School of Public Health office
phone 732-235-9824, Cancer Institute of New Jersey office