Related... Rule of thumb: Pre-allocate your object of the *correct* data type, if you know the final dimensions.
/Henrik On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm wondering where I can find the detailed descriptions on R memory > management. Understanding this could help me understand the runtime of > R program. For example, depending on how memory is allocated (either > allocate a chuck of memory that is more than necessary for the current > use, or allocate the memory that is just enough for the current use), > the performance of the following program could be very different. > Could somebody let me know some good references? > > unsorted_index=NULL > for(i in 1:100) { > unsorted_index=c(unsorted_index, i) > } > unsorted_index > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.