> On 16 Jun 2017, at 21:17 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > paste0("this is the first part", > "this is the second part") > > If the rather insignificant amount of time it takes to execute this function > call really matters (and I'm not convinced of that), then shouldn't it be > solved by the compiler applying constant folding to paste0()?
And, of course, if it is equivalent to a literal, it can be precomputed. There is no point in having it in the middle of a tight loop. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel