[Rcpp-devel] calling R function triggers tryCatch() ???

Hadley Wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Fri Oct 11 17:50:51 CEST 2013


The maintainer is very responsive so I'm sure he'd be happy to accept a
patch or even just a feature request. Ratio of medians sounds reasonable to
me, although you do have enough data to actually do some statistical,
tests, rankings etc.

Hadley

On Friday, October 11, 2013, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

>
> On 11 October 2013 at 09:24, Hadley Wickham wrote:
> | FYI, I recommend using microbenchmark which uses a much higher
> | precision timer so you can see the variability as well as the mean
> | times.
>
> Someone really needs to mod it to give the 'single figure of merit'
> comparison which makes rbenchmark so handy.  Maybe ratio of medians ?
>
> Dirk
>
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