[R] Zoo seems to be running slow in R 2.8.0 windows

[Gabor Grothendieck]

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On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:01 PM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
> R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] StreamMetabolism_0.01 chron_2.3-24          zoo_1.5-4
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] grid_2.8.0      lattice_0.17-15
>
>
> I have a large data set that I have been reading in the same way
> read.production() from the StreamMetabolism package and it has worked
> in the past without a hitch
>
> ##########code provided#############
> read.production <- function(data) { read.zoo(data, sep = ",", FUN =
> fmt.chron, header = TRUE)}
>
> fmt.chron <- function (x) {chron(sub(" .*", "", x), gsub(".* (.*)",
> "\\1:00", x))}
>
> this is the first time that I have used this data since the upgrade to
> 2.8 and it is taking longer to preform operations.  What can I do to
> help diagnose the problem.  I know this is not reproducible, but I
> don't know without sharing the entire data set how to do that.
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> --
> Stephen Sefick
> Research Scientist
> Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy
>
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