[R] The R Inferno

[roger koenker]

I think that this continuation constitutes what Pat calls "hijacking  
the thread"
at the end of his new and magnificent opus.  The original thread  
should be
reserved for kudos to Pat.


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On Jan 9, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Andrew Choens wrote:

>
>> now if only i could get tips to sort a 5 column * 1 million rows   
>> dataset in
>> less than ..eternity....
>
> May I suggest mySQL, postgreSQL, etc.? If what you need to do is a  
> basic
> sort, a database is going to be faster than R.
>
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