There are two areas for which I would appreciate hearing about the current
status.
1. I have been seeing a fair amount of negative comments about the
speed of 5.x. 5.x was hailed as a major improvement in speed when
it was launched. Part of the reason for my asking is that I am
getting some requests to modify my Hmisc and Design libraries to
run in 5.x. I am not inclined to do so until the speed issue has
been settled or until 5.x is available on Windows/NT. I have seen
posts where 5.x is very slow compared with 3.4, and others where
there is a slight improvement. What I would like to know is an
approximate "average" comparison for routine analyses and
bootstrapping, for example.
2. There was a push a few months ago for MathSoft to improve the
Windows/NT postscript driver up to the quality of the UNIX
version. I inquired at MathSoft and no one seems to be working on
it. My recollection is that the postscript code produced by
postscript() is inefficient and occasionally buggy (when converting
to .pdf, maybe). Is a new version of postscript() forthcoming?
--
Frank E Harrell Jr
Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Department of Health Evaluation Sciences
University of Virginia School of Medicine
http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat
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