Spedd: R vs S-plus

(Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk> writes:

My instincts say that "WIndows" is probably a significant
factor in the comnparison, but still ...

Ideally, to compare R with S-plus, one should look at them
both on the same OS (Unix or Windows) on the same machine.

Can anyone give me clean comparative speeds?

It's not that simple!   Anecdotal evidence has constructed a few
scenarios where R will run, but S-PLUS won't, and a few where R will
barely run, but S-plus has very few problems (problem == slowness, in
this case).

It would be critical to be a subjective Bayesian about it, since
weighting of common applications, and perhaps more importantly,
quality of code for matching up with the difference, will have a large
impact.

best,
-tony

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