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Microsoft’s Revolution Analytics buy pays off, Linux-based R Server launched

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Re: Am I right?

Partly.

The fact that it does vector arithmetic intrinsically is one reason. But the biggy is the enormous quantity of library code out there.

If you need speed, compilers are available, for a price. Or try Ox.

-A.

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