Re: [R] Performance of 'by' and 'ddply' on a large data frame

2009-11-20 Thread Tahir Butt
Tahir On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Tahir Butt wrote: > I've only recently started using R. One of the problems I come up > against is after having extracted a large dataset (>5M rows) out of > database, I realize I need another variable. In this case I have data > frame

[R] Performance of 'by' and 'ddply' on a large data frame

2009-11-19 Thread Tahir Butt
I've only recently started using R. One of the problems I come up against is after having extracted a large dataset (>5M rows) out of database, I realize I need another variable. In this case I have data frame with dates. I want to find the minimum date for each value of x1 and add that minimum dat