Re: [R] Multiple String word replacements: Performance Issue

2013-11-07 Thread jim holtman
Here is a start. I was wondering how long it would take to at least substitute 800 different patterns into 4M vectors. Here is my test. It took longer (99 sec) to create the test data than to do the substitutes (52 secs). Now some variations on this can provide the other information that you are

[R] Multiple String word replacements: Performance Issue

2013-11-06 Thread Simon Pickert
Dear experts, I’ve been on this for weeks now, and couldn’t find a solution..Sorry for the long description. I figured I post many details, so you get the problem entirely, although it’s not hard to grasp. **Situation:** Data frame consisting of 4 million entries (total size: 250 MB). Two column