René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Replacing benchmark/compare.R with a JavaScript implementation","articleBody":"Since I updated to macOS Monterey and R 4.2+ I am no longer able to install the packages required by `compare.R`. I recently found out about https://github.com/targos/node-benchmark-compare (h/t @targos) and gave it a try, it worked very well for me. I think in the past we had discussion about replacing this script with a JS implementation, it didn't end up fruitful because of the lack of implementation of the statistical distribution required by the script. Now that seems to be solved already by https://github.com/nearform/node-cephes  (see https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/44974#issuecomment-1275661186). So I am wondering if it's time to reopen the discussion.\r\n\r\nI think we can basically just vendor in the node-benchmark-compare package into `tools/` or `benchmark/` and replace the command `cat results.csv | Rscript benchmark/compare.R` with `node-benchmark-compare results.csv` (both [the benchmark guide](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/doc/contributing/writing-and-running-benchmarks.md) and [the script used by the CI](https://github.com/nodejs/benchmarking/blob/master/experimental/benchmarks/community-benchmark/run.sh) need to be updated, though in the case of the latter we might have to un-archive the repo, or edit the CI config to point to somewhere else?)\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/joyeecheung","@type":"Person","name":"joyeecheung"},"datePublished":"2022-11-09T16:37:23Z","url":"https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/45390"}