A correction to my previous post: after running the example A[,1] and A[[1]] the running time decrease so that eventually A[[1]] takes 0.025 seconds (according to system.time()) and A[,1] takes 1.8 seconds.
The ratio of time still 2-digit, but, apparently, the garbage collector is a good deal faster when memory is already available. best Vladimir Dergachev ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel