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Well, it is fair if all you want to do is mash some data together. Why shouldn't startup times be taken into consideration?
by JamesMcMinn 12y ago
Well, it is fair if all you want to do is mash some data together. Why shouldn't startup times be taken into consideration?
- mbq 12y agoBecause with R you can and usually do multiple things with multiple data sources within one session, which effectively dissolves the start-up and load time. Even if reading one file and calculating mean or something with a single script is the only thing you do, you can use Rscript which runs R without loading heavy stuff like the methods package.