On Sun, 13-Jun-2004 at 08:50PM -0400, Roger D. Peng wrote: |> I think the first time is potentially much slower because of a |> garbage collection.
Even if I do gc() before each one, there's no difference, so I kind of doubt that. |> R-devel has a flag `gcFirst' for system.time() which (I think) |> forces a garbage collection before timing. Would that be any different from explicitly doing gc()? I tried something similar in Splus 3.4. Of course, the same code doesn't work, but a large paste job took exactly the same time (to 4 decimal places) irrespective of how many times the job had been done before. Evidently, things are very different there. Best -- Patrick Connolly HortResearch Mt Albert Auckland New Zealand Ph: +64-9 815 4200 x 7188 ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ I have the world`s largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world ... Perhaps you`ve seen it. ---Steven Wright ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
