Message-ID: <x2bqzrbena.fsf@viggo.kubism.ku.dk>
Date: 2005-12-08T18:57:29Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: data.frame() size
In-Reply-To: <78166BFC5165D811AA0400065BF0324BF07B21@wisconsin.concordia>
Matthew Dowle <mdowle at concordiafunds.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> In the example below why is d 10 times bigger than m, according to
> object.size ? It also takes around 10 times as long to create, which fits
> with object.size() being truthful. gcinfo(TRUE) also indicates a great deal
> more garbage collector activity caused by data.frame() than matrix().
>
> $ R --vanilla
> ....
> > nr = 1000000
> > system.time(m<<-matrix(integer(1), nrow=nr, ncol=2))
> [1] 0.22 0.01 0.23 0.00 0.00
> > system.time(d<<-data.frame(a=integer(nr), b=integer(nr)))
> [1] 2.81 0.20 3.01 0.00 0.00 # 10 times longer
>
> > dim(m)
> [1] 1000000 2
> > dim(d)
> [1] 1000000 2 # same dimensions
>
> > storage.mode(m)
> [1] "integer"
> > sapply(d, storage.mode)
> a b
> "integer" "integer" # same storage.mode
>
> > object.size(m)/1024^2
> [1] 7.629616
> > object.size(d)/1024^2
> [1] 76.29482 # but 10 times bigger
>
> > sum(sapply(d, object.size))/1024^2
> [1] 7.629501 # or is it ? If its not
> really 10 times bigger, why 10 times longer above ?
Row names!!
> r <- as.character(1:1e6)
> object.size(r)
[1] 72000056
> object.size(r)/1024^2
[1] 68.6646
'nuff said?
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