[R] Speeding up small functions

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try a test in which you replace the function calls with inline
code and compare the two speed-wise.  You may very well
find that the difference is inconsequential.

On 11/19/06, Wee-Jin Goh <wjgoh at brookes.ac.uk> wrote:
> Greetings list,
>
> In my code, I have a few small functions that are called very very
> frequently. An example of one such function is the following :
>
> sigmoid<-function(x) 1/(1+exp(-x))
>
> Now, is there anyway to make this go faster? For example, in C++ we
> could make it inline. Is there a corresponding feature in R?
>
> Cheers,
> Wee-Jin
>
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