Why is Unix/Terminal faster than R?
问题 I'm new to Unix, however, I have recently realized that very simple Unix commands can do very simple things to large data set very very quickly. My question is why are these Unix commands so fast relative to R? Let's begin by assuming that the data is big, but not larger than the amount of RAM on your computer. Computationally, I understand that Unix commands are likely faster than their R counterparts. However, I can't imagine that this would explain the entire time difference. After all