[R] install R from RPM

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Fri Feb 9 17:31:49 CET 2001


On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Nicolas Fauchereau wrote:

> Hi everybody !
> 
> I'm new to R (used to Matlab ...) and I 'd like 
> to use R at home ...  
> 
<snip>
> another question : I have to deal with large Matrices (usually
> 1000*600 or more) is R suited for that ?   

R isn't particularly good at large matrices, but 1000*600 may not qualify
as "large" any more. If you have enough memory then R handles matrices
reasonably efficiently.


	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle

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