From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Dec 21 16:58:26 1999
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 16:58:26 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [R] need fast [lt]apply ()
In-Reply-To: <14431.42863.62537.411008@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9912211648410.6353-100000@auk.stats>

On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Martin Maechler wrote:

[...]

> I hope this reminds more people than just me
> that we (R users) "desperately" need someone who
> 
> rewrites  apply(),lapply(), and tapply()  
> to become much faster (as they are with S-plus [34].y, but not 5.[12])...

I think the problem was S-PLUS 5.0r[123]: 5.1's [ltr]apply seem fast again.

The key is to write a fast internal lapply and use that for the others.

> Anyone working on this ?

No, but as the .Call introduction has a cut-down version, I might as
well take a look.

Actually, I misread: outer is quite slow but it does not use apply!

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[R] need fast [lt]apply ()
Prof Brian D Ripley