Large correlation in parallel
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A little improvement to the bigcor function proposed on Rmazing to compute huge correlation matrix in R, I made the function work in parallel using all the CPU cores available on the machine. The code is here.Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
Here is a benchmark of the 2 functions on my machine with 8 cores:
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