Using TeXmacs as an interface for R (part 1)(This post was copied from my post at wordpress. Because I didn't manage to switch r-bloggers.com to use that blog, I'm reposting it here....) A nice, but not very well known, interface to R isTeXmacs. (I have to say that I ... [Read more...]

R is fairly slow in reading files. read.table() is slow, scan() a bit faster, and readLines() fastest.But all these are nowhere as fast as other tools that scan through files. Let us look at an example. I have in front of me a 283M file.(Small update: the ... [Read more...]

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