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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by IndianAstronaut on Friday January 23, 2015 @03:11PM (#8936969)
Code that was written for SAS in the 80s still runs today.
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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by michaelhoffman on Friday January 23, 2015 @05:13PM (#8937660)
Code that was written for S in the 80s still runs on R today.
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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by RockyMcNuts on Friday January 23, 2015 @06:43PM (#8938096)
If it has any loops, almost as slowly and uselessly as it did then :)
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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by jfolson on Friday January 23, 2015 @07:34PM (#8938284)
Not really. All packages are bytecode compiled, so unless you doing something stupid, for loops are much faster than they used to be in R.
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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by RockyMcNuts on Sunday January 25, 2015 @04:09PM (#8944261)
good to know...was doing something in 2013 that couldn't be vectorized (lots of portfolio simulation calcs where each element in dataframe depended on previous elements, ie portfolio value + market return - spending based on moving average of portfolio value) and it was pretty horrible, trying to use Rcpp and whatnot to speed it up!
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