[R] R routines vs. MATLAB/SPSS Routines

[Stefan Grosse]

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 22:54:48 Matthew Dubins wrote:
MD > in what respects do R routines work faster/more efficiently/more
MD > accurately than those of MATLAB/SPSS.

There has been a benchmark:
http://www.sciviews.org/benchmark/index.html

but thats quite old old, it would be interesting to see a new comparison 
between Matlab and R. As you see Matlab and R are equally fast.

SPSS however is something completely different, I expect it to be much slower.

cheers