Re: [R] speeding up regressions using ddply

2010-09-22 Thread Greg Snow
rom: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Alison Macalady > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 5:05 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] speeding up regressions using ddply > > > > Hi, > > I have a data set that I&#

Re: [R] speeding up regressions using ddply

2010-09-22 Thread Abhijit Dasgupta, PhD
There has been a recent addition of parallel processing capabilities to plyr (I believe v1.2 and later), along with a dataframe iterator construct. Both have improved performance of ddply greatly for multicore/cluster computing. So we now have the niceness of plyr's grammar with pretty good pe

Re: [R] speeding up regressions using ddply

2010-09-22 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi Alison, On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Alison Macalady wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have a data set that I'd like to run logistic regressions on, using ddply > to speed up the computation of many models with different combinations of > variables. In my experience ddply is not particularly fast.

[R] speeding up regressions using ddply

2010-09-22 Thread Alison Macalady
Hi, I have a data set that I'd like to run logistic regressions on, using ddply to speed up the computation of many models with different combinations of variables. I would like to run regressions on every unique two-variable combination in a portion of my data set, but I can't quite