From Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk at idi.ntnu.no  Tue Jan 13 10:33:33 2009
From: Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk at idi.ntnu.no (Wacek Kusnierczyk)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:33:33 +0100
Subject: [Rd] R as a scripting engine
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Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 11 January 2009 at 20:18, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> | Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are 
> | moving towards using R as a scripting engine.
> [...]
> | Reasons:
> | 
> | - it is platform-independent and needs no other tools installed.
> [...]
> | - it is fast.
> [...]
>
> Indeed.  I really like working with r scripts. 
>
> And littler by Horner and Eddelbuettel is faster than Rscript -- see eg the
> scripts tests/timing.sh and tests/timing2.sh in the SVN archive / littler
> tarballs (and the results below for illustration).   
>
> We should still appreciate it you could finally acknowledge existence of
> littler it in the R / Rscript documentation.   You are not doing users any
> service by pretending it doesn't exist.  
>
>   

will anyone ever bother to answer?  is silence to be taken as
acknowledgement, or rather a7e?

vQ



[Rd] R as a scripting engine
Wacek Kusnierczyk