Thank you very much for saving my time. I ran 500 simulations in 20 min using "sapply" function. I'll try "data.table" method for the rest of my simulations to get the results even faster. Thanks a lot again!
jholtman wrote > You can get even better improvement using the 'data.table' package: > >> require(data.table) >> system.time({ > + dt <- data.table(value = x, z = z) > + r3 <- dt[ > + , list(sum = sum(value)) > + , keyby = z > + ] > + }) > user system elapsed > 0.14 0.00 0.14 > > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:23 PM, stats12 < > skarmv@ > > wrote: >> Dear R users, >> >> I need to run 1000 simulations to find maximum likelihood estimates. I >> print my output as a vector. However, it is taking too long. I am running >> 50 >> simulations at a time and it is taking me 30 minutes. Once I tried to run >> 200 simulations at once, after 2 hours I stopped it and saw that only >> about >> 40 of them are simulated in those 2 hours. Is there any way to make my >> simulations faster? (I can post my code if needed, I'm just looking for >> general ideas here). Thank you in advance. >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/how-to-make-simulation-faster-tp4647492.html >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> > R-help@ > 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. > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Data Munger Guru > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@ > 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. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/how-to-make-simulation-faster-tp4647492p4647614.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.