偶然搜到的关于R 和多种矩阵计算软件的测评：

原文在http://www.sciviews.org/benchmark/

Since R offers similar features than S-PLUS, a larger  number of additional libraries (more than 300!), and is totally free, it is  clearly an excellent choice for statistical analyses. This benchmark shows  also that it is also quite good for "number crunching". Moreover, it  runs on almost all platforms (Windows, Macintosh,  Unix/Linux) and it has not the "loop problem" of S-PLUS (yet it also  provides apply() and the like to accelerate loops).  However, it does not propose (yet) the same nice user interface with menus and  dialog boxes (GUI) as S-PLUS 6.1 does,... (though many professionals do not  care about that because they prefer to use scripts and the command line for a  finer control on their calculations). R becomes better and better with the  successive releases. It is maintained and enriched by a very active community  of developers. These are the reasons why we decided to promote it as a  reference in our benchmark tests.