ducktomguy

have you ever rejected a shipment for being too fragile/heavy/oddly shaped?

Hi Stephen, just wanted to say after reading Freakonomics it inspired me to make ifiknewyou.com, which finds ridiculous correlations like "people who have at least one tattoo are more likely to have a better sense of balance"

I use R every now and then for small-level data analysis. I'm definitely not an expert on optimization, but I do know R's underlying rule of "never use loops, use apply instead" However, I've noticed that R is not as fast for some types of regression analysis as compared to STATA (which we use side by side)

Could I be doing something inefficiently, or is it possible that R is not as fast as other statistics software such as STATA?