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2011 Jun 26
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Why is looping in R inefficient, but in C not?
Hey,
I just read another post about calling R from C. Someone on
stackoverflow (DWin makes me suspect its David W.?) referenced this:
http://www.math.univ-montp2.fr/~pudlo/R_files/call_R.pdf
Which made me think: Why is a loop in R bad, but in C not?
And where exactly does looping cost the most? I wrote a piece of code
for my bachelor's thesis where I loop from 1 to 500, and estimate a