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Row timings

Similar to the previous example, the objects mat and df are a matrix and a data frame, respectively. Using microbenchmark(), how long does it take to select the first row from each of these objects?

To make the comparison fair, just use mat[1, ] and df[1, ].

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Writing Efficient R Code

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Exercise instructions

The microbenchmark package is already loaded in your workspace.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Which is faster, mat[1, ] or df[1, ]? 
microbenchmark(___, ___)
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