Hi all, I have a large data.frame, 1530 observation with 6 columns. I want to merge a 7th column, a transformation of the response variable (hospital admissions), namely trans<-sqrt(copd$admissions+0.25) trans<-data.frame(trans) And now when I do copd2<-merge(copd,trans) (copd being my original data.frame), R either crashes or is taking an extremely long time to do the computation. I had expected the computation to be done almost instantly as I have done similar things in R recently, however my system becomes very slow to the point of being unusable. Would people expect this computation to take a long time? Most of the data in the data.frame are just integers. I want to perform linear regression on the data trans, so I would like it in the data.frame to save typing. Any ideas?
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