Re: [R] on execution time of a function...

2018-06-13 Thread Jeff Newmiller
your concerns tolerating my query on an >OS-agnostic mailing list! > >AKSHAY M KULKARNI > >From: Loris Bennett >Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 1:37 PM >To: Jeff Newmiller >Cc: r-help@r-project.org; akshay kulkarni >Subject: Re: [R] on executi

Re: [R] on execution time of a function...

2018-06-13 Thread akshay kulkarni
kshay kulkarni Subject: Re: [R] on execution time of a function... Hi Akshay, In addition to all the things Jeff rightly points out, contention for IO resources can be an issue. So if another process was hogging the bandwidth while your program was attempting to read or write to disk, that could

Re: [R] on execution time of a function...

2018-06-13 Thread Loris Bennett
Hi Akshay, In addition to all the things Jeff rightly points out, contention for IO resources can be an issue. So if another process was hogging the bandwidth while your program was attempting to read or write to disk, that could also have slowed things down. HTH Loris Jeff Newmiller writes:

Re: [R] on execution time of a function...

2018-06-13 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Wow, you can find almost any explanation on the Internets. That doesn't mean you should believe all of them. R does not do anything likely to tweak interrupts... if that is your problem then you need to be on an operating-system/computer-model-specific forum rather than this OS-agnostic mailing

[R] on execution time of a function...

2018-06-12 Thread akshay kulkarni
I ran a function in R three days ago and the execution time was about 4 minutes. I ran the same function yesterday and the execution time was more than 6:50 minutes(I aborted the function after that time). I read in the Internet that this is possible. I also came to know that software or hardw