[R] python

[Gabor Grothendieck]

There is work going on on two byte compilers for R:

http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/compiler/

http://www.milbo.users.sonic.net/ra

You could check whether running under either of those speeds up your R
code sufficiently that you don't need to rewrite it.


On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Jean Legeande <jean.legeande at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
> I would like to make my R code for MCMC faster. It is possible to integrate
> C code into R but I think C is too complicated for me. I would need a C
> introduction only for MCMC and I do not know if such a thing exists.
>
> I was thinking of Python (and scipy). Where could I read about its
> integration into R ? How developed are the statistical packages in Python ?
> I could not find a Python package on the web with functions to simulate
> Wishart, or multivariate gamma or student distributions.
>
> Since I am a little bit lost, I write this message to the R help list. Sorry
> for these naive questions and thanks for your help.
>
> Best,
> Jean
>
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