[R] for loop performance

[Barth B. Riley]

Dear list

I am running some simulations in R involving reading in several hundred datasets, performing some statistics and outputting those statistics to file. I have noticed that it seems that the time it takes to process of a dataset (or, say, a set of 100 datasets) seems to take longer as the simulation progresses. Has anyone else noticed this? I am curious to know if this has to do with how R processes code in loops or if it might be due to memory usage issues (e.g., repeatedly reading data into the same matrix).

Thanks in advance

Barth

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