Hey thanks alot guys !!! That really speeds things up !!! I didn't know %*% and crossprod, could operate on matrices. I think you've saved me hours in calculation time. Thanks again.
> system.time({C=matrix(0,50,50);for(i in 1:n)C = C + (X[i,] %o% X[i,])}) user system elapsed 0.45 0.00 0.90 > system.time({C1 = t(X) %*% X}) user system elapsed 0.02 0.00 0.05 > system.time({C2 = crossprod(X)}) user system elapsed 0.02 0.00 0.02 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Speed-up-sum-of-outer-products-tp3330160p3330378.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.