Enhancing R with advanced compilation tools and methods

Statistical Science

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 167-180

  Lang, Duncan Temple ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compilation; Efficient computation; Extensible compiler toolkit; Programming language

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907187629     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/13-STS462     Document Type: Article

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