How to streamline and speed up loop with getData package in R - r

Question

I am trying to download high-resolution climate data for a bunch of lat/long coordinates, and combine them into a single dataframe. I've come up with a solution (below), but it will take forever with the large list of coordinates I have. I asked a related question on the GIS StackExchange to see if anyone knew of a better approach for downloading and merging the data, but I'm wondering if I could somehow just speed up the operation of the loop? Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might do that? Here is a reproducible example:
# Download and merge 0.5 minute MAT/MAP data from WorldClim for a list of lon/lat coordinates
# This is based on https://emilypiche.github.io/BIO381/raster.html
# Make a dataframe with coordinates
coords <- data.frame(Lon = c(-83.63, 149.12), Lat=c(10.39,-35.31))
# Load package
library(raster)
# Make an empty dataframe for dumping data into
coords3 <- data.frame(Lon=integer(), Lat=integer(), MAT_10=integer(), MAP_MM=integer())
# Get WorldClim data for all the coordinates, and dump into coords 3
for(i in seq_along(coords$Lon)) {
r <- getData("worldclim", var="bio", res=0.5, lon=coords[i,1], lat=coords[i,2]) # Download the tile containing the lat/lon
r <- r[[c(1,12)]] # Reduce the layers in the RasterStack to just the variables we want to look at (MAT*10 and MAP_mm)
names(r) <- c("MAT_10", "MAP_mm") # Rename the columns to something intelligible
points <- SpatialPoints(na.omit(coords[i,1:2]), proj4string = r#crs) #give lon,lat to SpatialPoints
values <- extract(r,points)
coords2 <- cbind.data.frame(coords[i,1:2],values)
coords3 <- rbind(coords3, coords2)
}
# Convert MAT*10 from WorldClim into MAT in Celcius
coords3$MAT_C <- coords3$MAT_10/10
Edit: Thanks to advice from Dave2e, I've first made a list, then put intermediate results in the list, and rbind it at the end. I haven't timed this yet to see how much faster it is than my original solution. If anyone has further suggestions on how to improve the speed, I'm all ears! Here is the new version:
coordsList <- list()
for(i in seq_along(coordinates$lon_stm)) {
r <- getData("worldclim", var="bio", res=0.5, lon=coordinates[i,7], lat=coordinates[i,6]) # Download the tile containing the lat/lon
r <- r[[c(1,12)]] # Reduce the layers in the RasterStack to just the variables we want to look at (MAT*10 and MAP_mm)
names(r) <- c("MAT_10", "MAP_mm") # Rename the columns to something intelligible
points <- SpatialPoints(na.omit(coordinates[i,7:6]), proj4string = r#crs) #give lon,lat to SpatialPoints
values <- extract(r,points)
coordsList[[i]] <- cbind.data.frame(coordinates[i,7:6],values)
}
coords_new <- bind_rows(coordsList)
Edit2: I used system.time() to time the execution of both of the above approaches. When I did the timing, I had already downloaded all of the data, so the download time isn't included in my time estimates. My first approach took 45.01 minutes, and the revised approach took 44.15 minutes, so I'm not really seeing a substantial time savings by doing it the latter way. Still open to advice on how to revise the code so I can improve the speed of the operations!