[R] Why R is 200 times slower than Matlab ?

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Nelson Castillo <nelsoneci at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Aside from optiming your code by making use of R functions
>  >  that use C underneath as much as possible the big difference
>  >  between R and Matlab is Matlab's just-in-time compilation of
>  >  code.  When that was introduced in Matlab huge speedups of
>  >  Matlab programs were noticeable.
>  >
>  >  For R, there is a new package on CRAN, jit, that
>  >  aims to provide similar speedups.
>
>  http://www.milbo.users.sonic.net/ra/index.html
>
>  Great! I just found out about ra. In Python I love psyco and I guess I will test
>  ra soon.

Does somebody know where one could find a rpm of Ra for Fedora 8?

Paul