[R] (Edited) cbind alternate for data frames

2012-01-06 Thread Mary Kindall
I have two dataframes and want to perform cbind and then write into a file. The number of entries are more than a million in both frames. R is taking a lot of time performing this operation. Is there any alternate way to perform cbind? x = table1[1:100,1:4] y = table2[1:100,3:6]

Re: [R] (Edited) cbind alternate for data frames

2012-01-06 Thread MacQueen, Don
For me, this example runs in a fraction of a second: t1 - data.frame(matrix(rnorm(3e6),ncol=3)) t2 - data.frame(matrix(rnorm(3e6),ncol=3)) t3 - cbind(t1,t2) dim(t3) [1] 100 6 Maybe it takes longer if your data frames have other classes of objects in them. If some of your data frame