Advanced R Programming

Alternative Backends for R LiveLessons teaches R programmerstechniques for dealing with large data, both in memory and indatabases. Jared begins with common datamanipulation operations using different base R functions and packages like plyr. He then compares the speed of in-memory calculations. For increased speed, he then shows more advanced techniques such as data.table and Rcpp for the same task. For larger data sizes than speed, he introduces external memory to the process and database techniques using bibmemory.ff, SciDB and dplyr.