R High Performance Programming

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