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Message-ID: <CANz9Z_KKU+k9_Wg+=ZZ+6HuZgn3Te94vT76Ag8E+h9QR2cjaeQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2011-10-13T20:51:07Z
From: Joshua Wiley
Subject: SLOW split() function
In-Reply-To: <1318493150909-3900851.post@n4.nabble.com>

Very nice!  I am quite impressed at how flexible data.table is.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Matthew Dowle <mdowle at mdowle.plus.com> wrote:
> Using Josh's nice example, with data.table's built-in 'by' (optimised
> grouping) yields a 6 times speedup (100 seconds down to 15 on
> my netbook).
>
>> system.time(all.2b <- lapply(si, function(.indx) { coef(lm(y ~
> + x, data=d[.indx,])) }))
> ? user ?system elapsed
> 144.501 ? 0.300 145.525
>
>> system.time(all.2c <- lapply(si, function(.indx) { minimal.lm(y
> + = d[.indx, y], x = d[.indx, list(int, x)]) }))
> ? user ?system elapsed
> 100.819 ? 0.084 101.552
>
>> system.time(all.2d <- d[,minimal.lm2(y=y, x=cbind(int, x)),by=key])
> ? user ?system elapsed
> ?15.269 ? 0.012 ?15.323 ? # 6 times faster
>
>> head(all.2c)
> $`1`
> ? ? ? ?coef ? ? ? ?se
> x1 0.5152438 0.6277254
> x2 0.5621320 0.5754560
>
> $`2`
> ? ? ? ?coef ? ? ? se
> x1 0.2228235 0.312918
> x2 0.3312261 0.261529
>
> $`3`
> ? ? ? ? coef ? ? ? ?se
> x1 -0.1972439 0.4674000
> x2 -0.1674313 0.4479957
>
> $`4`
> ? ? ? ? ?coef ? ? ? ?se
> x1 -0.13915746 0.2729158
> x2 -0.03409833 0.2212416
>
> $`5`
> ? ? ? ? ? coef ? ? ? ?se
> x1 ?0.007969786 0.2389103
> x2 -0.083776526 0.2046823
>
> $`6`
> ? ? ? ? ?coef ? ? ? ?se
> x1 -0.58576454 0.5677619
> x2 -0.07249539 0.5009013
>
>> head(all.2d)
> ? ? key ? ? ? coef ? ? ? ?V2
> [1,] ? 1 ?0.5152438 0.6277254
> [2,] ? 1 ?0.5621320 0.5754560
> [3,] ? 2 ?0.2228235 0.3129180
> [4,] ? 2 ?0.3312261 0.2615290
> [5,] ? 3 -0.1972439 0.4674000
> [6,] ? 3 -0.1674313 0.4479957
>
>> minimal.lm2 ? # slightly modified version of Josh's
> function(y, x) {
> ?obj <- lm.fit(x = x, y = y)
> ?resvar <- sum(obj$residuals^2)/obj$df.residual
> ?p <- obj$rank
> ?R <- .Call("La_chol2inv", x = obj$qr$qr[1L:p, 1L:p, drop = FALSE],
> size = p, PACKAGE = "base")
> ?m <- min(dim(R))
> ?d <- c(R)[1L + 0L:(m - 1L) * (dim(R)[1L] + 1L)]
> ?se <- sqrt(d * resvar)
> ?list(coef = obj$coefficients, se)
> }
>>
>
>
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-- 
Joshua Wiley
Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
Programmer Analyst II, ATS Statistical Consulting Group
University of California, Los Angeles
https://joshuawiley.com/