[Haskell-cafe] data analysis question

[Tobias Pflug]

On 12.11.2014 12:56, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
> On 12/11/14 05:21, Peter Simons wrote:
>> If you'd want to analyze 12 GB of data in Haskell, you'd have to jump
>> through all kinds of hoops just to load that CVS file into memory. It's
>> possible, no doubt, but pulling it off efficiently requires a lot of
>> expertise in Haskell that statistics guys don't necessarily have (and
>> arguably they shouldn't have to).
> Well, with Haskell you don't have to load the whole data set into
> memory, as Michael shows. With R, on the other hand, you do.
>
>
That is exactly the thing that came to my mind thinking about R. I 
haven't actually used R myself
but based on what I know and what some googling revealed all analysis 
would have to happen in-memory.

PS: I could be wrong of course ;)