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R Programming for Bioinformatics
book

R Programming for Bioinformatics

by Robert Gentleman
July 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
328 pages
10h 53m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 6
Foreign Language Interfaces
6.1 Introduction
In this chapter we discuss some of the many dierent interfaces to functions
and libraries written in other languages. There are several reasons for wanting
to interact with software written in other languages. The two main reasons
are eciency and access to existing code bases. Since R is not compiled,
in some situations its performance can be substantially improved by writing
code in a compiled language. There are also reasons not to write code in other
languages, and in particular we caution against premature optimization, pro-
totyping in R is often cost eective. And in our experience very
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ISBN: 9781420063677