Hadley et. al: Indeed. And using a loop is a poor way to do it anyway.
v <- as.list(rep(FALSE,dotot)) is way faster. -- Bert On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Hadley Wickham <had...@rice.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Jan van der Laan <rh...@eoos.dds.nl> wrote: >> Johan, >> >> Your 'list' and 'array doubling' code can be written much more efficient. >> >> The following function is faster than your g and easier to read: >> >> g2 <- function(dotot) { >> v <- list() >> for (i in seq_len(dotot)) { >> v[[i]] <- FALSE >> } >> } > > Except that you don't need to pre-allocate lists... > > Hadley > > -- > Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair > Department of Statistics / Rice University > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.