Wow, these specs are fantastic:
> user system elapsed > 0.33 0.00 0.39 > I wonder how much of that is because of the capacity of the box that you are running R on. Can you post pertinent specs? This suggest to me that hardware upgrades (RAM specifically) may also be in order. Investigating data.table now. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Data-Frame-Search-Slow-tp4096906p4097278.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.