[R] The R Inferno

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 1/9/2009 1:27 PM, roger koenker wrote:
> I think that this continuation constitutes what Pat calls "hijacking  
> the thread"
> at the end of his new and magnificent opus.  The original thread  
> should be
> reserved for kudos to Pat.

Which he well deserves -- it's good advice, and a fun read too.

Duncan

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> On Jan 9, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Andrew Choens wrote:
> 
>>
>>> now if only i could get tips to sort a 5 column * 1 million rows   
>>> dataset in
>>> less than ..eternity....
>>
>> May I suggest mySQL, postgreSQL, etc.? If what you need to do is a  
>> basic
>> sort, a database is going to be faster than R.
>>
>> -- 
>> Insert something humorous here.  :-)
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