Hi,
It's not just the for loop, you are also growing objects in your code (z).
Consider ?cumsum
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Romain
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of tom soyer
Sent: Tue 11/12/2007 11:17
To: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: [R] Alternative to For Loop?
Hi,
I am doing a calculation on a long series using a For Loop. Here is an
example of the calculation:
accumulate=function(x){
y=0
z=0
for(i in 1:length(x)){
y=y+x[i]
z=c(z,y)
}
return(z[2:length(z)])
}
> x=c(1:10)
> x
[1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
> accumulate(x)
[1] 1 3 6 10 15 21 28 36 45 55
>
Although the For Loop works, looping through an array is time consuming and
inefficient when the series is large. Does anyone know a faster way of doing
the same calculation? Thanks!
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Tom
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