In two previous posts, I have written about how you can speed up your R computations either by using strange notation and non-standard functions or by compiling your code. Last year my department bought a 64-core computational server, which allowed me ... [Read more...]

A year ago I wrote a post on speeding up R computations. Some of the tips that I mentioned then have since been made redundant by a single package: compiler. Forget about worrying about curly brackets and whether to write 3*3 or 3^2 - compile... [Read more...]

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