Modern R Programming Cookbook

Comparing the performance of switch and series of the if…else statements

Sometimes, you are in a situation where you will execute one task from a list of alternatives based on a conditional value of another variable. In this case, you have two ways of doing it, either using the switch function or a series of the if…else if…else statement. The question is which one performs better. In this recipe, you will assess the performance of these two alternatives.