foreach and allied packages have helped me speed up some code
significantly.  I have four cores in my machine and this allows me to
get away with this...
HTH

Stephen

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Jim Holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> anytime my code starts to take more than a couple of minutes to run what 
> might look like a simple set of commands, I use Rprof to see where the time 
> goes.  Run this on your script and you might get some insight into the 
> problem area.  If it ran for an hour, I would defintely take a deep dive into 
> it.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Aug 17, 2011, at 20:14, mark_horo <markknigh...@yahoo.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> Hi I'm trying to speed my loop up. Any Suggestions?? At the moment it takes a
>> few days to run.
>>
>> THE CODE
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>    for(i in 1:11) {
>>        for (j in 3:12) {
>>            for (k in 1:273107) {
>>                        y[k,1] <- x[i,j,k]
>>                        print(y)
>>                                Rainfall_dataset <- 
>> read.table("1km_grid_nzmg.csv",
>>                                header=TRUE, sep=",", na.strings="NA", 
>> dec=".", strip.white=TRUE)
>>
>>                                t <- Rainfall_dataset
>>                                print(t)
>>
>>                                p<-cbind(t,y)
>>                                #y<-cbind(t,y)
>>                                #print(y)
>>            }
>>                        # This where you write out array y to a csv file
>>                        # Save output as a csv file
>>                        site <- paste("site",i,"-",j)
>>
>>                            csvfile <- paste(site,sep=".","csv"); 
>> print(csvfile)
>>                            path<- paste("c:/Data/",csvfile)
>>                            print(path)
>>                            write.csv(p,file=path, row.names = TRUE)
>>        }
>>    }
>>
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