Ajay ohri wrote:
excellent adaptation of Dante and R with real common sense tips to help beginners especially ..goes to the blogroll...... now if only i could get tips to sort a 5 column * 1 million rows dataset in less than ..eternity....
Er, that's a fairly short eternity: > x <- data.frame(rnorm(1e6),rnorm(1e6),rnorm(1e6),rnorm(1e6),rnorm(1e6)) > names(x) <- letters[1:5] > system.time(y <- x[order(x$a),]) user system elapsed 3.259 0.160 3.435 > head(y) a b c d e 227944 -4.418977 0.9635349 0.2477897 -0.10172584 0.09840375 492006 -4.327607 -1.4967631 -0.3467700 0.53053492 -0.80043595 89830 -4.285324 -2.0491949 -2.2024725 -0.34946013 -0.63538249 -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Ă˜ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ 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.