?cumsum

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Sean Davis wrote:

I have vector X of length N that I want to have a running sum for (called Y). I just need max(Y). I do this with a "for" loop like so:

   Y <- vector(length=N)
   Y[1] <- X[1]
   for (i in 2:N) {
     Y[i] <- Y[i-1]+X[i]
   }
   return(max(Y))

Is there a faster way to do this?

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