Fast subsetting of a matrix in R
问题 I face the following problem: I need many subsets of a big matrix. Actually I just need views as input for another function f(), so I don't need to change the values. However it seems, that R is terribly slow for this task, or I'm doing something wrong (which seems more likely). The toy example illustrates how much time it takes just to select the columns, and then use them in another function (in this toy example the primitive function sum()). As 'benchmark' I also test the calculation time