[R] besoin d'aide

[Jim Rogers]

For writing "special-purpose" merge functions as mentioned below, you will probably want to know about match(). A lot of the essential work of merge() is being done by match(), but merge() also includes a lot of idiot-proofing. Comparing the length of the code for these two functions will give you some idea of the overhead of all that idiot-proofing. If you write your own merge function using match() and cbind(), or match() and data.frame(), it will probably be much faster (but less idiot proof; e.g. if your "by" variable is a factor, you need to be very careful - probably you want to convert it to character prior to the merging operation).  


>The function merge() is like the "join" operation in relational data bases 
>- it's much more powerful than mere concatenation (and thus often much 
>slower, especially on large tables.) 
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>To merely concatenate tables together, use rbind() (to concatenate by rows) 
>or cbind() (to concatenate by columns). 
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>If you do need the power of merge(), but it is too slow for your purposes 
>you may be able to write a special-purpose function in R that does just 
>only you need and much more quickly -- such is the nature of the S language 
>-- it is very powerful, but the powerful general-purpose functions can 
>often be quite slow in particular cases. 
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>Hope this helps, and apologies if I have not completely understood your 
>question. 
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>-- Tony Plate 
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>At Wednesday 03:39 PM 4/16/2003 +0200, Erwan BARRET wrote: 
>>J'aimerais savoir si la fonction merge() est la seule disponible pour 
>>concatener des tableaux de données? 
>>Est-ce normal que l'exécution soit lente? 
>> 

James A. Rogers, Ph.D. <rogers at cantatapharm.com>
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