[R] R perfomance question !!!

[Roland Rau]

Hi,

diver495 wrote:
> Using Visual Basic I can complete the same script (simple loop of 5000000
> itterations) in 0.1 sec.
> Is it realy R not suitable for huge computing.

If you are happy with Visual Basic, then there is no need for you to use R.
In case your message was not a flamebait, it is well known that loops 
like these are often bottlenecks for R.

There are many resources how to easily avoid them. See, for example, "S 
Programming by Venables and Ripley or John Chambers' book: Programming 
with data.
Even searching the mail archive for subject like "avoid loops" might be 
helpful.
You might also consider checking functions like apply, tapply, ...

Best,
Roland

P.S.
It seems there is also a good book available for scientific computing 
with Visual Basic:
http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200002/df20000210.jpg