[PLUG] Brain the size of a planet

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

They've cleaned up their memory management and made some humongous
performance improvements in stuff I use every day, which is reading
moderate-sized CSV files into memory. R 2.0.0 was a major turning point!
They have a couple of object models now.

Russell Senior wrote:

>I am familiar with R.  I've been using it (off and on) since about
>v0.5.  Its object model is Lisp-inspired (a la CLOS) with generic
>functions, methods and slots.  R's vector abstraction is kind of nice.
>Historically it has been a little bit limited in the way it deals with
>memory.  Used to be the whole problem needed to fit into memory.  Not
>sure how that's doing these days.
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