DATA MINING
Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams |
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The colSums function is an optimised function for calculating the sums of columns in an array. The example here also illustrates how to format output to make large numbers much easier to read, by including commas. The times can be obtained using the system.time function.
> A <- matrix(runif(10000000, 0, 100), ncol=10) > colSums(A) # Optimised: 0.1 seconds > rep(1, nrow(A)) %*% A # Slower: 0.3 seconds > apply(A, 2, sum) # Slowest: 0.7 seconds > format(colSums(A), big.mark=",") [1] "49,966,626" "49,968,075" "49,977,689" "50,010,843" "50,038,271" [6] "49,936,119" "50,027,467" "49,985,741" "50,065,027" "49,985,044" > colSums(A) [1] 49966626 49968075 49977689 50010843 50038271 49936119 50027467 49985741 [9] 50065027 49985044 |