[R] interpreting profiling output

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Wed Jul 28 00:17:10 CEST 2004


> From: Kasper Daniel Hansen
> 
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:12:56AM +0200, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm... You're using summaryRprof(), obviously. Do the 
> results match up
> > with what you get from R CMD Rprof? Looking at the source for
> > summaryRprof, I see that it uses this construction
> > 
> > selft <- sapply(ls(envir = self), function(f) get(f, envir =
> >     self))
> >  
> > which I suspect does not count function names that start 
> with a dot...
> 
> It does not. Runnig everything through R CMD Rprof gives a much moe 
> sensible output. I have no further questions.
> 
> Do I file a bug report on summaryRprof - it is certainly 
> unintentional 
> that it does not compute eg. .C calls when computing the self time?

I thought I did see .C in the output of summaryRprof() at one time...

Andy

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