[R] Performance Difference? Windows vs. Linux

[Shige Song]

One thing that Linux makes trivially easy is to interpolate R with C++
through the Rcpp package. The GCC compiler collection is part of all
mainstream Linux distro. This is, however, not the case with Windows:
you may be able to do it eventually (not sure about this point), but
it takes quite some tweaks...

Shige

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Brigid Mooney <bkmooney at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not trying to start a Windows vs. Linux debate, but I've been
> using R on a Windows machine for a while, and was recently wondering
> if R's performance would be faster on a Linux machine.  And similarly,
> if any incremental increase in processing speed would be worth the
> time it would take me to migrate my entire system to Linux (including
> a database that I access via an R package.)
>
> I don't know how much it matters what R is doing - but I've got R
> pulling a large amount data from a database, performing many complex
> computations on that data, and then writing output data to a database.
>
> Thanks so much for the input,
> Brigid
>
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