[Rd] split.Date

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> McGehee, Robert writes:

> Hello,
> I wanted to suggest that the below method for split.Date be added to the
> base library to significantly speed up splits with values of class Date.
> In the below example I show a speed improvement of 175x for 1000 data
> points. On a vector of size 1e6, the time difference was 22 minutes for
> split.default versus 0.3 seconds for the split.Date function below (!).
> Note that this improvement will also substantially improve performance
> for the tapply function on class Date as well.

Thanks for the suggestion.  Looks good to me, so I've just added this to
r-devel.

Best
-k

> Thanks,
> Robert

> split.Date <- function(x, f, drop=FALSE) {
>     x <- split.default(as.integer(x), f, drop=drop)
>     for (i in seq(along=x)) class(x[[i]]) <- "Date"
>     x
> }

>> vals <- round(1000*rnorm(1e4))
>> date <- rep(Sys.Date() + -1:1, length.out=1e4)
>> system.time(x1 <- split.default(date, vals))
>    user  system elapsed 
>   7.718   0.042   7.761 
>> system.time(x2 <- split.Date(date, vals))
>    user  system elapsed 
>   0.044   0.000   0.044 
>> all.equal(x1, x2)
> [1] TRUE

> Robert McGehee, CFA
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