rfortunes: If we do that, I predict that the total amount of r-help time wasted on it will exceed the CPU time saved by orders of magnitude. -- Duncan Murdoch (after a specialized function speeding up detection of NAs was suggested for base R) R-devel (April 2006) #Rstats

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If we do that, I predict that the total amount of r-help time wasted on it will exceed the CPU time saved by orders of magnitude.
-- Duncan Murdoch (after a specialized function speeding up detection of NAs was suggested for base R)
R-devel (April 2006) #Rstats