R High Performance Programming : Overcome Performance Difficulties in R with a Range of Exciting Techniques and Solutions

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionWhat you will learnBenchmark and profile R programs to solve performance bottlenecksUnderstand how CPU, memory, and disk input/output constraints can limit the performance of R programsOptimize R code to run faster and use less memoryUse compiled code in R and other languages such as C to speed up computationsHarness the power of GPUs for computational speedProcess data sets that are larger than memory using diskbased memory and chunkingTap into the capacity of multiple CPUs using parallel computingLeverage the power of advanced database systems and Big Data tools from within RWho 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.