Compare R with Other Languages on Data Manipulation

Posted on May 13, 2012 in Computer Science • Tagged with Python, C++, programming, statistics, Java, string, data frame, R, OOP, MATLAB, CRAN

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Here I compare R with other languages such as C/C++, Java, MATLAB, Python and so on data manipulation. I list a few advantages and disadvantages of …


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Program Termination in SAS

Posted on Jan 05, 2015 in Computer Science • Tagged with programming, SAS, termination, exit, quit, stop, error

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To print an error …


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Cartesian Product in SAS

Posted on Oct 23, 2014 in Computer Science • Tagged with programming, SAS, Cartesian product

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Suppose we have 2 variables x = ("a", "b", "c") and y = (1, 2, 3), and we want to create a dataset containing the Cartesian product of x …


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Check the Type of a SAS Variable

Posted on Aug 22, 2014 in Computer Science • Tagged with programming, SAS, data type, variable, proc content, putn

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General Tips for MATLAB

Posted on Dec 08, 2012 in Computer Science • Tagged with tips, skills, programming, MATLAB

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Skills

  1. MATLAB support profiling running time of code, so that you what to work on to optimize your code.s

  2. It is expensive to allocate a new …


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Rcpp Rocks

Posted on Sep 16, 2012 in Computer Science • Tagged with C++, list, programming, HPC, Rcpp, R, RcppArmadillo, Armadillo, rock

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Please see here for some simple examples for learning Rcpp and related packages.

Tips

  1. Though you can overload functions in a Rcpp module, it causes problems when …


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