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R High Performance Programming: Overcome performance difficulties in R with a range of exciting techniques and solutions

R High Performance Programming: Overcome performance difficulties in R with a range of exciting techniques and solutions


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Key Features Book DescriptionThis book is for programmers and developers who want to improve the performance of their R programs by making them run faster with large data sets or who are trying to solve a pesky performance problem.What you will learn Benchmark and profile R programs to solve performance bottlenecks Understand how CPU, memory, and disk input/output constraints can limit the performance of R programs Optimize R code to run faster and use less memory Use compiled code in R and other languages such as C to speed up computations Harness the power of GPUs for computational speed Process data sets that are larger than memory using diskbased memory and chunking Tap into the capacity of multiple CPUs using parallel computing Leverage the power of advanced database systems and Big Data tools from within R Who this book is forThis book is for programmers and developers who want to improve the performance of their R programs by making them run faster with large data sets or who are trying to solve a pesky performance problem.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents

  1. Understanding R performance?Why is R sometimes so slow?
  2. Measuring how well R code performs
  3. Simple tweaks to make R code run faster
  4. Using compiled code for greater speed
  5. Using GPUs to run R even faster
  6. Simple tweaks to use less RAM
  7. Processing large data sets with limited RAM
  8. Multiplying performance with parallel computing
  9. Off-Loading Data Processing to Database Systems
  10. R and Big, Fast Data


About the Author :
Aloysius Lim has a knack for translating complex data and models into easy-to-understand insights. As cofounder of About People, a data science and design consultancy, he loves solving problems and helping others to find practical solutions to business challenges using data. His breadth of experience—7 years in the government, education, and retail industries—equips him with unique perspectives to find creative solutions.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781783989270
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
  • Publisher Imprint: Packt Publishing Limited
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Overcome performance difficulties in R with a range of exciting techniques and solutions
  • ISBN-10: 1783989270
  • Publisher Date: 29 Jan 2015
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 176


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