Change the data frame to a matrix

One of the parts of the code that profvis highlighted was the line where we generated the possible dice rolls and stored the results in a data frame:

df <- data.frame(d1 = sample(1:6, 3, replace = TRUE),
                d2 = sample(1:6, 3, replace = TRUE))

We can optimize this code by making two improvements:

Switching from a data frame to a matrix
Generating the 6 dice rolls in a single step

This gives

m <- matrix(sample(1:6, 6, replace = TRUE), ncol = 2)

Read and understand the data frame solution d().
Complete the matrix solution, m().
- m() should create a matrix with 6 elements and 2 columns.
Use the microbenchmark() function to compare the timings of d() and m().

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Change the data frame to a matrix

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