R as a scripting engine
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 11 January 2009 at 20:18, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are | moving towards using R as a scripting engine. [...] | Reasons: | | - it is platform-independent and needs no other tools installed. [...] | - it is fast. [...] Indeed. I really like working with r scripts. And littler by Horner and Eddelbuettel is faster than Rscript -- see eg the scripts tests/timing.sh and tests/timing2.sh in the SVN archive / littler tarballs (and the results below for illustration). We should still appreciate it you could finally acknowledge existence of littler it in the R / Rscript documentation. You are not doing users any service by pretending it doesn't exist.
will anyone ever bother to answer? is silence to be taken as acknowledgement, or rather a7e? vQ