Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!koenker From: koenker@uiucuxc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.math.stat Subject: Re: S seems incredibly slow... Message-ID: <42600001@uiucuxc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 15:00:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucuxc.42600001 Posted: Fri Nov 30 15:00:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 03:27:14 EST References: <316@rna.UUCP> Lines: 10 Nf-ID: #R:rna:-31600:uiucuxc:42600001:000:368 Nf-From: uiucuxc!koenker Nov 30 14:00:00 1984 On example one try: s_sin((1:20)%o(1:20)) This should help. S for loops are notoriously slow and every effort should be made to find ways toexploit S's natural looping constructs. The operator %o is a special case ofthe general function outer. See also apply and sapply for useful functions. Roger Koenker Department of Economics University of Illinois