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This is a good summary; I could have done with it back in 2006 when I needed to use R for something. As an aside; while R is a neat tool and pretty powerful in
by ajb 17y ago
This is a good summary; I could have done with it back in 2006 when I needed to use R for something.
As an aside; while R is a neat tool and pretty powerful in many ways, there's a phrase in the documentation which makes it really clear that it wasn't written by computer scientists: the authors claim that R is 'the same language' as S because it has the same syntax, but it has 'a different engine', by which they mean that it has different semantics...
- ableal 17y agoWell, I've seen it taught that a "computer architecture" is really the CPU's instruction set (i.e. ISA, instruction set architecture), without particular regard for the specific performance (e.g. in terms of clock cycles) or implementation. And that was from the CS side of the school ... (Also seems to be the line at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_architecture )