On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:21 AM, William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote: > Preallocation of lists does speed things up. The following shows > time quadratic in size when there is no preallocation and linear > growth when there is, for size in the c. 10^4 to 10^6 region:
Interesting, thanks! I wish there was a better way for me to learn this stuff than constantly being wrong in public ;) 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.