Re:R is a joy if you treat it like Awk
by eliashaddad on Thursday October 10, 2019 @10:35AM
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That is not true at all.
R has inbuilt great parallel tools (check for example the doSnow and future frameworks);
the best packages for data manipulation are mostly written in C (for example data.table and a good part of the tidyverse);
and with frameworks like Drake you can easilly create a Dag out of it that can process complex iterations millions of times. Check the uses of the Rcpp package that makes interfacing C code to R a breeze.
But of course, if you were comparing R to a pure compiled language, you are out of luck.
R has inbuilt great parallel tools (check for example the doSnow and future frameworks);
the best packages for data manipulation are mostly written in C (for example data.table and a good part of the tidyverse);
and with frameworks like Drake you can easilly create a Dag out of it that can process complex iterations millions of times. Check the uses of the Rcpp package that makes interfacing C code to R a breeze.
But of course, if you were comparing R to a pure compiled language, you are out of luck.