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
>
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