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Merge pull request #101 from kdpsingh/patch-6 

Minor grammar fix -- removed "type of"
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Hadley Wickham 2016-05-25 09:45:09 -05:00
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@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ for (i in seq_along(means)) {
str(output)
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But this type of is not very efficient because in each iteration, R has to copy all the data from the previous iterations. In technical terms you get "quadratic" ($O(n^2)$) behaviour which means that a loop with three times as many elements would take nine times ($3^2$) as long to run.
But this is not very efficient because in each iteration, R has to copy all the data from the previous iterations. In technical terms you get "quadratic" ($O(n^2)$) behaviour which means that a loop with three times as many elements would take nine times ($3^2$) as long to run.
A better solution to save the results in a list, and then combine into a single vector after the loop is done: