Hi,
Please see below for post on r-help regarding data.frame() and the
possibility of dropping rownames, for space and time reasons.
I've made some changes, attached, and it seems to be working well. I see the
expected space (90% saved) and time (10 times faster) savings. There are no
doubt some bugs, and needs more work and testing, but I thought I would post
first at this stage.
Could some changes along these lines be made to R ? I'm happy to help with
testing and further work if required. In the meantime I can work with
overloaded functions which fixes the problems in my case.
Functions effected :
dim.data.frame
format.data.frame
print.data.frame
data.frame
[.data.frame
as.matrix.data.frame
Modified source code attached.
Regards,
Matthew
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Dowle
Sent: 09 December 2005 09:44
To: 'Peter Dalgaard'
Cc: 'r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch'
Subject: RE: [R] data.frame() size
That explains it. Thanks. I don't need rownames though, as I'll only ever
use integer subscripts. Is there anyway to drop them, or even better not
create them in the first place? The memory saved (90%) by not having them
and 10 times speed up would be very useful. I think I need a data.frame
rather than a matrix because I have columns of different types in real life.
> rownames(d) = NULL
Error in "dimnames<-.data.frame"(`*tmp*`, value = list(NULL, c("a", "b" :
invalid 'dimnames' given for data frame
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter
Dalgaard
Sent: 08 December 2005 18:57
To: Matthew Dowle
Cc: 'r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch'
Subject: Re: [R] data.frame() size
Matthew Dowle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> In the example below why is d 10 times bigger than m, according to
> object.size ? It also takes around 10 times as long to create, which
> fits with object.size() being truthful. gcinfo(TRUE) also indicates a
> great deal more garbage collector activity caused by data.frame() than
> matrix().
>
> $ R --vanilla
> ....
> > nr = 1000000
> > system.time(m<<-matrix(integer(1), nrow=nr, ncol=2))
> [1] 0.22 0.01 0.23 0.00 0.00
> > system.time(d<<-data.frame(a=integer(nr), b=integer(nr)))
> [1] 2.81 0.20 3.01 0.00 0.00 # 10 times longer
>
> > dim(m)
> [1] 1000000 2
> > dim(d)
> [1] 1000000 2 # same dimensions
>
> > storage.mode(m)
> [1] "integer"
> > sapply(d, storage.mode)
> a b
> "integer" "integer" # same storage.mode
>
> > object.size(m)/1024^2
> [1] 7.629616
> > object.size(d)/1024^2
> [1] 76.29482 # but 10 times bigger
>
> > sum(sapply(d, object.size))/1024^2
> [1] 7.629501 # or is it ? If its not
> really 10 times bigger, why 10 times longer above ?
Row names!!
> r <- as.character(1:1e6)
> object.size(r)
[1] 72000056
> object.size(r)/1024^2
[1] 68.6646
'nuff said?
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