[R] F# vs. R

[Ed Keith]

It's been a long time since I used Fortran, and I have only dabbled in F#, but I do not think translating Fortran (or R) to F# will be easy. F# is basicly a functional language (like ML) and a very differant mind set than Fortran (or R).

   -EdK

Ed Keith
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--- On Thu, 7/8/10, rkevinburton at charter.net <rkevinburton at charter.net> wrote:

> From: rkevinburton at charter.net <rkevinburton at charter.net>
> Subject: Re: [R] F# vs. R
> To: r-help at r-project.org, "Patrick Burns" <pburns at pburns.seanet.com>, sergeyg at gmail.com
> Date: Thursday, July 8, 2010, 10:16 AM
> True, porting old C and Fortran code
> to C# or F# would be a pain and probably riddled with errors
> but it is not too soon to start looking to see if there is a
> better way. There have been numerous ports of LAPACK, BLAS,
> etc. to C#. Maybe they could be leveraged.
> 
> Maybe just allowing packages to be wrtten in C# or F# would
> be helpful. And remember there is Mono.
> 
> Just my 2 cents.
> 
> ---- Patrick Burns <pburns at pburns.seanet.com>
> wrote: 
> > I'd like to hear answers to this as well.
> > A language doesn't have to be a complete
> > replacement to be useful.
> > 
> > F# seems to have some nice features.
> > 
> > Pat
> > 
> > On 07/07/2010 17:54, Sergey Goriatchev wrote:
> > > Hello, Marc
> > >
> > > No, I do not want to validate Cox PH. :-)
> > > I do use R daily, though right now I do not use
> the statistical part that much.
> > >
> > > I just generally wonder if any R-user tried F#
> and his/her opinions.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Sergey
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 17:56, Marc Schwartz<marc_schwartz at me.com> 
> wrote:
> > >> On Jul 7, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Sergey
> Goriatchev wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Hello, everyone
> > >>>
> > >>> F# is now public. Compiled code should
> run  faster than R.
> > >>>
> > >>> Anyone has opinion on F# vs. R? Just
> curious
> > >>>
> > >>> Best,
> > >>> S
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> The key time critical parts of R are written
> in compiled C and FORTRAN.
> > >>
> > >> Of course, if you want to take the time to
> code and validate a Cox PH or mixed effects model in F# and
> then run them against R's coxph() or lme()/lmer() functions
> to test the timing, feel free...  :-)
> > >>
> > >> So unless there is a pre-existing library of
> statistical and related functionality for F#, perhaps you
> need to reconsider your query.
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >>
> > >> Marc Schwartz
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > -- 
> > Patrick Burns
> > pburns at pburns.seanet.com
> > http://www.burns-stat.com
> > (home of 'Some hints for the R beginner'
> > and 'The R Inferno')
> > 
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