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R to common lisp translator

On 01/25/2011 10:01 AM, Andres Susrud wrote:
We run backtests in R on complex indicators on tick data where the 
indicator updates every tick.  These complete backtests, including the 
path dependent trade generation rules run (for us) in seconds to a few 
minutes per day of tick data per instrument.  All our code is R (mostly) 
or C/C++ (either implied, like with TTR, or specific to our proprietary 
indicators).
This is a known performance bottleneck in R, and there is quite a lot of 
literature about either reworking this to a vectorized formulation, or 
moving such calculations which *must* be looped to C, Fortran, Java, or 
C++ (for which good integration options already exist in R).
R-help would be a better place to see if people are doing Lisp in R in 
any repeatable, scalable, manner.

Regards,

    - Brian