R high performance programming : overcome performance difficulties in R with a range of exciting techniques and solutions /

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Author / Creator:Lim, Aloysius, author.
Imprint:Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, 2015.
Description:1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Community experience distilled
Community experience distilled.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11305749
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Other authors / contributors:Tjhi, William, author.
ISBN:9781783989270
1783989270
1783989270
1783989262
9781783989263
Notes:Includes index.
Online resource; title from cover (Safari, viewed February 23, 2015).
Summary:Chapter 6: Simple Tweaks to Use Less RAM; Reusing objects without taking up more memory; Removing intermediate data when it is no longer needed; Calculating values on the fly instead of storing them persistently; Swapping active and non-active data; Summary; Chapter 7: Processing Large Datasets with Limited RAM; Using memory-efficient data structures; Smaller data types; Sparse matrices; Symmetric matrices; Bit vectors; Using memory-mapped files and processing data in chunks; The bigmemory package; The ff package; Summary; Chapter 8: Multiplying Performance with Parallel Computing
This 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.
Other form:Print version: Lim, Aloysius. R high performance programming : overcome performance difficulties in R with a range of exciting techniques and solutions. Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, ©2015 iii, 159 pages Community experience distilled. 9781783989263

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