[R] Intersection for two curves

[David Winsemius]

On Apr 24, 2010, at 10:09 AM, hadley wickham wrote:

>> Perhaps, true in some respects. I am still chiseling out work using
>> primitive editing tools. But it still takes several minutes to load  
>> the
>> objects I am working on into memory and then several minutes each  
>> to build
>> new models. The models still reside in memory, since I do not know  
>> any
>> method for automatically saving the output that would not further  
>> increase
>> the time expended. Typically I am working on .Rdta files that are  
>> 400MB on
>> disk and then are around 4GB in RAM. I need to make a tradeoff  
>> between the
>> time I would lose in saving after every <n> models or tabulation,  
>> versus the
>> security of having everything saved. If you want to recommend  
>> methods that
>> would speed those processes, I'm surely all ears.
>
> Well it sounds like you won't lose any work, but you will lose some
> time.  But why not open another session of R for R-help questions?
> Then you're never in any danger.  I often have four or five instances
> of R running for different projects.

Not a bad idea but one that I thought was unfeasible with my use of an  
R-GUI. I had considering keeping a session open on my laptop.

>
> Hadley
>
> -- 
> Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
> Department of Statistics / Rice University
> http://had.co.nz/

David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT