Re: [Rd] as.Date.character speed improvement suggestion

2013-08-16 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Aug 16, 2013, at 1:54 PM, McGehee, Robert wrote: > R-Devel, > I store and retrieve a large amount of financial data (millions of rows) in a > PostgreSQL database keyed by date (and represented in R by class Date). > Unfortunately, I frequently find that a great deal of processing time is >

[Rd] as.Date.character speed improvement suggestion

2013-08-16 Thread McGehee, Robert
R-Devel, I store and retrieve a large amount of financial data (millions of rows) in a PostgreSQL database keyed by date (and represented in R by class Date). Unfortunately, I frequently find that a great deal of processing time is spent converting dates from character representations to Date cl