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Re:Machine learning algorithm benchmarked in Matlab, R and S... by cema on Friday September 02, 2011 @12:51PM (#2954710)
But how about reimplementing R in Scala? Or, better yet, in Clojure? The best of both worlds.
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Re:Machine learning algorithm benchmarked in Matlab, R and S... by icey on Friday September 02, 2011 @02:48PM (#2955159)
I'm sure you're already aware of this, but just in case:

http://incanter.org/

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Re:Machine learning algorithm benchmarked in Matlab, R and S... by cema on Friday September 02, 2011 @07:51PM (#2956036)
Indeed, Incanter is a famous project and for a while was one of the best showcases for Clojure.

What it does is it implements some of the functionality of R in Clojure. What I am talking about is instead compiling R to Clojure (or Java runtime; there are portions of R projects implemented in C which may not map to Clojure efficiently). This way, the R community does not lose the extensive library of projects it has been producing for years.

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