On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Paul Gilbert <pgilb...@bank-banque-canada.ca> wrote: > (subject changed from: RE: [Rd] Avoiding name clashes: opinion on best > practice naming conventions) > > Dominick > > Is this really true? Is there a speed advantage to defining a local function > this way, say, within another function, and then calling it within a loop > rather than the original? Do you have data on this?
I wondered about this statement too but: > system.time(replicate(1e4, base::print)) user system elapsed 0.539 0.001 0.541 > system.time(replicate(1e4, print)) user system elapsed 0.013 0.000 0.012 So it is (relatively) significant, although it's not going to make an impact unless you're doing thousands of function calls. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
