Re: [R] Performance of concatenating strings

2007-10-31 Thread Tamara Steijger
Hi, thanks for the fast answers. I'm sorry, if I was not clear enough in my question. The problem we are trying to solve is LetterDisplay. There is already a heuristic implemented in the multcompView package of Hans-Peter Piepho. We implemented an exact fixed parameter tractable implementat

[R] Performance of concatenating strings

2007-10-31 Thread Tamara Steijger
Hi, I would like to ask how the paste(S1, S2, sep="") function internally works. Are the two stings copied to a new String? I have a program where successively strings are build up. First the program calls an external function and depending on the result it builds up strings to visualize th