[R] R benchmarking program

[Philippe Grosjean]

Hello,

I did this bechmark test. Perhaps is it a good oppotunity to rewrite it 
and make it compatible with R 2.7.0, David?
Best,

Philippe Grosjean
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Baker D.J. wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've just rebuild the latest R with the Goto BLAS on our new Intel quad core machines. I did a few basic matrix calculations, and I was very impressed by the performance I saw. I wonder if anyone has a more rigorous benchmarking program for R. I downloaded a old R test/benchmarking program (see below), and this didn't work with the current R, and so I wondered if anyone could please direct me to a more recent program that does a good all round test of R.
> 
> Regards -- David.
> 
> 
> # R Benchmark 2.3 (21 April 2004)
> # Warning: changes are not carefully checked yet!
> # version 2.3 adapted to R 1.9.0
> # Many thanks to Douglas Bates (bates at stat.wisc.edu) for improvements!
> # version 2.2 adapted to R 1.8.0
> # version 2.1 adapted to R 1.7.0
> # version 2, scaled to get 1 +/- 0.1 sec with R 1.6.2
> # using the standard ATLAS library (Rblas.dll)
> # on a Pentium IV 1.6 Ghz with 1 Gb Ram on Win XP pro
> 
> # revised and optimized for R v. 1.5.x, 8 June 2002
> # Requires additionnal libraries: Matrix, SuppDists
> # Author : Philippe Grosjean
> # eMail  : phgrosjean at sciviews.org
> # Web    : http://www.sciviews.org
> # License: GPL 2 or above at your convenience (see: http://www.gnu.org)
> #
> # Several tests are adapted from the Splus Benchmark Test V. 2
> # by Stephan Steinhaus (stst at informatik.uni-frankfurt.de)
> # Reference for Escoufier's equivalents vectors (test III.5):
> # Escoufier Y., 1970. Echantillonnage dans une population de variables
> # aleatoires réles. Publ. Inst. Statis. Univ. Paris 19 Fasc 4, 1-47.
> 
> ...
> Error in getClass(Class, where = topenv(parent.frame())) :
>   "geMatrix" is not a defined class
> Calls: new -> getClass
> Execution halted
> 
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